Using a Wallet on Pruned Node

StartOS Support
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Hi Starters,

Installed Start9 in a Proxmox VM, give it 8 cores (outof 16), 8gb of Ram and 400gb of space. All seems to work fine, Start9 doesn’t eat to much resources…

Since I have only 400gb allocated, I installed a pruned Bitcoin Core and its synced. Then I needed electrs to use wallets. Oooops. This doesn’t work unless you have a full node. I guess I should have read a bit more before I started this all. :neutral_face:

Now what can I do with a pruned node, nothing much I guess? Would like to use a wallet…

Thanks for listening to this newbie…

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Not all wallets need an Electrum server to connect. Sparrow for example can connect directly to Bitcoin Core. You can also run a lightning node.

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Ah, thanks…

Anyways, found a 1tb sata SSD, trying again with that, with a full node.

Probably not fast enough to run smoothly, need an extra NVME SSD, 2tb or so.

Thanks for listening…