Full node on a Smartphone

[HCP]

I would agree that from a raw processing power point of view, the hardware in most modern phones is quite capable of acting as a Bitcoin Node... the issue is really that the package as a whole is not well suited to the task.

Surely, the thermal throttling that would likely occur during the CPU intensive initial sync, combined with relatively small batteries and often fairly limited storage capacity (which in a number of cases is non-upgradeable) make them a poor choice. And, yeah, you can get around the storage issue by running a "pruned" node... but then that is going to limit what you can actually do with it.

Personally, I think, as with a lot of things... just because you can, doesn't mean you should

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[Carlton Banks]

Surely, the thermal throttling that would likely occur during the CPU intensive initial sync

combined with relatively small batteries and often fairly limited storage capacity

which direction is computation/battery capacity/storage size technologies moving in? increase or decrease?

and as I said, Bitcoin is becoming less demanding on the hardware, except storage space (which is incurable under a satoshi style full node design). All that has to happen is storage capacity has to continue to outperform blockchain growth rate, and phones will continue to become more viable as Bitcoin nodes. All signs indicate that storage tech will do so, NAND flash continues to scale up nicely.

[charlie137]

agree with HCP - would be challenging to solve the power question right. tho theres somewhat mobile solutions https://github.com/rootzoll/raspiblitz)) battery + lte wifi access point - and after full sync you could use it in the field by adding the battery to RPi