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Re:Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet by Ruphin on Monday March 08, 2021 @12:41PM (#26388791)
I am running ETH nodes at home, on RPis. They are even participating in the (future) consensus model through PoS.

I'm a fan of Bitcoin, and I'm not sure why the random need to criticize Ethereum here. Bitcoin has enough reasons to be useful, no need to be insecure about other projects being useful too.

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Re:Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet by rfd4sgmk8u on Monday March 08, 2021 @03:41PM (#26391226)
I was under the impression that the RPi CPU is too slow to process/sync blocks. And unless you have an SSD to store blocks, IO will limit your capacity to verify new incoming blocks every 15 seconds. This was my experience a few years ago.

Are your running a full archival ETH node on a RPI with a 3TB+ SSD attached?

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Re:Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet by epinephrinios on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @11:41PM (#26420334)
I am also running a couple of validators at home without special hardware.
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