Oddbean new post about login | logout I think it's stupid to have a miner and a node all in one. Like having a node in a fridge (a bit too far, but drives home the point)
Why do you think it’s stupid to have an all-in-one node and miner as an option? If I could have my node built into my fridge to take advantage of better cooling while reducing power consumption and not losing any privacy or security, I would do that. Why is having options stupid?
I say it's stupid because a miner and a node do very different things. Node --> general computer Miner --> specialized computer, that produces a lot of heat and noise. > If I could have my node built into my fridge to take advantage of better cooling while reducing power consumption That would be super silly. A computer inside a fridge will produce heat in a place where you want cold. It would be strictly less efficient. Same
I don't knowwwww FutureBit sells the Apollo II as a Full Node + Miner or just the Miner that can hook up to a Full Node. I'm pretty sure it's not a bad idea to give people options and let them decide what's best for themselves. Or as you say, FutureBit is stupid.
I say it's stupid for me, but people can find it amazing and buy it.
it's just kinda stupid because of the storage requirements... i mean, can you mine from a pruned node tho? i guess if you can, ok, but otherwise it's over $100 plus the price of the computer itself, and when the network traffic is bad and the ordinals are spamming unless you set a bandwidth limit you will end up suffering (very very) occasionally missing mining a block because your network was so clogged with traffic that someone else's block squeezed past it