I've been running a full Bitcoin node on a raspi for almost 3 years now. I keep it up to date and sync'd, and use it mainly for my own education and to monitor my utxos as I hodl. I suppose it adds in some small way to the robustness of the network, but it has no commercial raison d'etre really. Jus...

I'm kind of in a similar position. Routing fees are scarce for my node. While mainly used for testing and learning, one of the reasons I have mine running is to be able to receive any contributions via the Geyser.fund/project/nodeyez project page for Nodeyez. I can't afford/justify the costs of Vo...