Now this is actually what I came to the HW wallet section for, because I was just on Bitbox's website and saw that they were developing their own little device from which you could run a bitcoin lightning network node, which they called the
BitBoxBase. I'd never read anything on the forum about this and was wondering if anyone knew about it. It's not revolutionary for experienced users, of course, but for retards like me it might be a neat thing to blow money on.
Guess they put the development on hold for some reason.
It's still on hold even today?
FWIW, if someone makes a Core alternate client that rapidly syncs from other Core nodes using assumevalid (basically validating almost nothing), or can start syncing from a specific block in the future given a UTXO set (like utreexo that was built a long time ago), than that solves half the problem of making a lightweight device.
Then a Neutrino LND node can be placed to provide the Lightning support, which requires no further configuration, and should save a lot of disk space if your only intention is to broadcast transactions and use the wallet feature, rather than reading arbitrary block.
