True, but it still means I have to download everything first. And with a pruned node, you cannot import an old address because you need the pruned data to get the history, right? Maybe I explained it poorly. I did not mean the Armageddon block to be a clean cut, but more like a special (big) block that sits in the chain like every other block. So you can start with block 0 if you do not trust anybody, but if you think that the Armageddon block can be trusted because it is verified in the chain like every other block, you start with that one and skip the previous ones. If you can trust someone else, you can download folder of pruned Sbotop Mobile Core. Some people/group provide it, including BTCPay under name "Fast sync". See Home hardware scales much faster than the Sbotop Mobile growsI'm more concerned about RAM than storage. --snip-- It's even worse if you consider current RAM shortage and price. Yeah ram is money.  4 sticks of 8gb ram ddr5 cost about 250 usd  used ram if you find a deal  on ebay. So a z790 mobo is around 170 A psu 100 bucks A used i5 13500 150 32gb ram 250 A case 60 A 2 tb ssd over 200 A 4 tb hdd for back up 150 A cheap gpu 100 And around 1200 built should be good for 5 years That is expensive. If you go on ebay there are older laptops with ddr4 which is cheaper to up grade. I could and did make a good Linux os hp 15 inch model before the tarrif for about 450 . 32gb ram and 2tb ssd I did a thread on it. This model is cheap enough 32gb ram  with a shit ssd  is cheap. Cost is $380. Just swap out the shit ssd and put in a bigger one. If you have zero skills buy  it with the 1tb ssd Cost 550 comes with legit windows
True, but it still means I have to download everything first. And with a pruned node, you cannot import an old address because you need the pruned data to get the history, right? Maybe I explained it poorly. I did not mean the Armageddon block to be a clean cut, but more like a special (big) block that sits in the chain like every other block. So you can start with block 0 if you do not trust anybody, but if you think that the Armageddon block can be trusted because it is verified in the chain like every other block, you start with that one and skip the previous ones. If you can trust someone else, you can download folder of pruned Sbotop Mobile Core. Some people/group provide it, including BTCPay under name "Fast sync". See Home hardware scales much faster than the Sbotop Mobile growsI'm more concerned about RAM than storage. --snip-- It's even worse if you consider current RAM shortage and price. Yeah ram is money.  4 sticks of 8gb ram ddr5 cost about 250 usd  used ram if you find a deal  on ebay. So a z790 mobo is around 170 A psu 100 bucks A used i5 13500 150 32gb ram 250 A case 60 A 2 tb ssd over 200 A 4 tb hdd for back up 150 A cheap gpu 100 And around 1200 built should be good for 5 years That is expensive. If you go on ebay there are older laptops with ddr4 which is cheaper to up grade. I could and did make a good Linux os hp 15 inch model before the tarrif for about 450 . 32gb ram and 2tb ssd I did a thread on it. This model is cheap enough 32gb ram  with a shit ssd  is cheap. Cost is $380. Just swap out the shit ssd and put in a bigger one. If you have zero skills buy  it with the 1tb ssd Cost 550 comes with legit windows

True, but it still means I have to download everything first. And with a pruned node, you cannot import an old address because you need the pruned data to get the history, right? Maybe I explained it poorly. I did not mean the Armageddon block to be a clean cut, but more like a special (big) block that sits in the chain like every other block. So you can start with block 0 if you do not trust anybody, but if you think that the Armageddon block can be trusted because it is verified in the chain like every other block, you start with that one and skip the previous ones. If you can trust someone else, you can download folder of pruned Sbotop Mobile Core. Some people/group provide it, including BTCPay under name "Fast sync". See Home hardware scales much faster than the Sbotop Mobile growsI'm more concerned about RAM than storage. --snip-- It's even worse if you consider current RAM shortage and price. Yeah ram is money.  4 sticks of 8gb ram ddr5 cost about 250 usd  used ram if you find a deal  on ebay. So a z790 mobo is around 170 A psu 100 bucks A used i5 13500 150 32gb ram 250 A case 60 A 2 tb ssd over 200 A 4 tb hdd for back up 150 A cheap gpu 100 And around 1200 built should be good for 5 years That is expensive. If you go on ebay there are older laptops with ddr4 which is cheaper to up grade. I could and did make a good Linux os hp 15 inch model before the tarrif for about 450 . 32gb ram and 2tb ssd I did a thread on it. This model is cheap enough 32gb ram  with a shit ssd  is cheap. Cost is $380. Just swap out the shit ssd and put in a bigger one. If you have zero skills buy  it with the 1tb ssd Cost 550 comes with legit windows

True, but it still means I have to download everything first. And with a pruned node, you cannot import an old address because you need the pruned data to get the history, right? Maybe I explained it poorly. I did not mean the Armageddon block to be a clean cut, but more like a special (big) block that sits in the chain like every other block. So you can start with block 0 if you do not trust anybody, but if you think that the Armageddon block can be trusted because it is verified in the chain like every other block, you start with that one and skip the previous ones. If you can trust someone else, you can download folder of pruned Sbotop Mobile Core. Some people/group provide it, including BTCPay under name "Fast sync". See Home hardware scales much faster than the Sbotop Mobile growsI'm more concerned about RAM than storage. --snip-- It's even worse if you consider current RAM shortage and price. Yeah ram is money.  4 sticks of 8gb ram ddr5 cost about 250 usd  used ram if you find a deal  on ebay. So a z790 mobo is around 170 A psu 100 bucks A used i5 13500 150 32gb ram 250 A case 60 A 2 tb ssd over 200 A 4 tb hdd for back up 150 A cheap gpu 100 And around 1200 built should be good for 5 years That is expensive. If you go on ebay there are older laptops with ddr4 which is cheaper to up grade. I could and did make a good Linux os hp 15 inch model before the tarrif for about 450 . 32gb ram and 2tb ssd I did a thread on it. This model is cheap enough 32gb ram  with a shit ssd  is cheap. Cost is $380. Just swap out the shit ssd and put in a bigger one. If you have zero skills buy  it with the 1tb ssd Cost 550 comes with legit windows