I really do need to market better 😬 I’m just starting to get some infra public, I’ll get around to a general site for myself with more complete info at some point. An interested pleb should look up the CPU of each machine on

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as that will make the single biggest difference in long term feasibility. I did a quick compare for the desktops as fast as possible (dayjob, 🤫) for simplicity. I do not recommend anything below 2000. Most decent consumer computers post-2014 cpu mfg date will easily clear this hurdle. I believe the new pi 5 does meet this particular criteria of mine, but I still disqualify them as viable nodes. Beyond cpu, storage is the next thing to think about. 1tb is fine, 2tb is better, but you don’t really have to have a full archival node if you are cutting cost corners - so the 128gb I include in the laptops gets you by in a pinch, while still having 1 bay free for expansion. After storage, memory is next. Max it. Doesn’t matter if it’s overkill, it’s cheap enough not to skimp on when possible. 8gb min imo