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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 25 Mar \ on: The best bitcoin node? Here's what I did, comments? bitcoin_beginners

Just for using Sparrow wallet, you do not need all the hassle with Umbrel. Umbrel is just a fancy UI.

You could just install https://bitcoincore.org/ and Sparrow on a simple PC (Linux, Windows, Mac) and done. Nothing else.

And btw, just for using Sparrow, you do not need to keep that BTC node online 24/7. You don't even need to fully sync, you could use a pruned node.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Lightwavewebservice OP 25 Mar

I quite like running the full node to service Bitcoin and I keep online as I run Lightning node and btcpay server for my website shops, all works well and as u pointed out looks nice :) is there a disadvantage to a pruned node? Maybe just can't go all way back through transactions

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 25 Mar

Running a BTCPpay server with a LN node behind is totally something else than just using Sparrow with a BTC node. I was commenting only about your OP, using Sparrow.

Even for a shop, you can run easily a LND node with Neutrino, as I explained here: #439263 And you don't even need an Umbrel UI.

A pruned node yes, is just showing the period you select, but that doesn't mean is ignoring all the previous blocks. Is more for a personal use, when you really do not need the whole blockchain history and use it for specific use cases.

Neutrino on the other side, is providing all blocks, but the client do not have to download them. Read more here:

There are many ways to run a LN node for a shop and there's a misconception that you need a full BTC and public LN node in order to do that. Wrong. You can run perfectly fine a private LN node with few channels, with a neutrino sync on a VPS (without even downloading the whole blockchain).