Lol yes. I also dislike reddit but devs were actually active there.
No problem, it's worth investigating. I'll ask my Bitcoin core context in claude from when I did the core v knots analysis too.
Personally, I run a node on a mini pc using an external hard disk drive for storage. I was a little worried, but it works fine without needing SSD speeds. IBD was long, but reasonable. I lost network for a couple weeks and it only took a few hours to sync back up. Blocks really would have to require magnitudes more processing time for my node to fall behind. And it's hard to rack up magnitudes in such a bounded system.
