Oh so you half debunked 1/3 points and it's all good now?
Good luck putting a company and service provider between your Bitcoin and yourself. That was Satoshi's vision, the whitepaper famously said Bitcoin: A Peer-to-company-to-service-provider-to-Peer Electronic Cash System as we all remember.
It's amazing how willing some "Bitcoiners" are of reinventing tradfi/banking with extra steps.

@EVAN KALOUDIS thoughts on this? 😁
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqszklxapxe6fmh35qay0wak3w5eyx00kej935kf237q2ztl6tz7c0q7tm97g

You sure do but running that 7/24 requires much more electric than a rpi, your budget, your choice of course.

It's a constrained device IDK what went wrong w/ u. There are some details. What was your serip like hardware wise besides the pi, which pi?

Try the no sync Skylight wallet on top:
Skylight Monero Wallet (MAGIC Grants), monero-lws, TX notifier https://yakihonne.com/article/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzp8euwghzsxupay6z7ku9f58mltj94q5vv2ykt5fyywzw2sxek9efqy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgawaehxw309ahx7um5wgknqvfw09skk6tgdahxuefwvdhk6tcqz569qme529n5ww2t2du4wuzswf6ycmed94jstvz8pc

There are about 15,000 active routing nodes on the Lightning Network right now. Over 50% of the entire network runs on node-in-a-box software like Umbrel, RaspiBlitz, and MyNode. And what hardware do you think 99% of those OS builds are explicitly designed for? Raspberry Pis.

The massive corporate liquidity hubs (like Kraken or ACINQ) run on enterprise servers, sure. But the actual decentralized routing mesh of the Lightning Network is literally held together by thousands of people running Pi 4s and Pi 5s.

What?

It’s a total myth that you can't run a Bitcoin/Lightning node on a Raspberry Pi. It’s actually one of the most cost-effective sovereign setups you can build.

This bad boy (my Pi 5) has been running my Lightning node flawlessly for two years. I just decided to switch from a pruned node to a full archival node. I restarted the sync from scratch, and less than 24 hours later, I’m already over a third of the way through the chain.

Zero interruptions to my Lightning channels. I just flipped LND into Neutrino mode so it stays online and routing while the heavy Bitcoin sync chugs along in the background.

If you use a cheap MicroSD card, you’re gonna have a bad time. Plug in a basic USB SSD and it absolutely flies.

At ~5-10 watts of power draw, this whole setup costs maybe $15 to $30 a year in electricity to run 24/7. Pretty cost effective.

if you just want to receive Lightning tips, Neutrino lets you run a self-custodial node on something as small as a Raspberry Pi. It operates as a light client, so it skips the heavy block storage entirely and just pulls the headers it needs to verify your specific channels. Super cheap to set up and runs just fine.

I've been running my own Lightning node with an intact channel on a Raspberry Pi 5 for two years now, using it frequently without any expensive enterprise gear.
https://github.com/lightninglabs/neutrino

He's busy on Twitter inventing mental gymnastics to justify deceptive marketing.