also, there hasn't been a 51% attack and there aren't monthly hard forks. so you're just talking out the wrong end.

monero? you got played. bitcoin only. full stop. forget your hour. learn to prune.

you don't know wtf you're talking about 👍

Well that's with a remote node. I tried to sync from scratch as I would have for a Bitcoin node. What was very demanding is the IO. I'm testing it again, and will compare the CPU time of transaction verification after the initial sync.

it takes 2 core and 4 GB of RAM to run your own local node