[ Our goal is to help build a more secure future with low-cost hardware, and green energy ]
BossBaby is currently focused on the Harmony ONE blockchain. We spit our time between the validator community, managing our nodes, and playing DeFi Kingdoms.
We've currently chosen to build our nodes with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. While this platform isn't a performance powerhouse, it does offer numerous benefits, ones that are attainable for most; low-cost hardware, low power consumption, software support (open-source), online documentation / tutorials, and the Raspberry Pi community itself.
Our network runs off of a battery bank powered by a custom solar generator. In the event that grid power is out, and the battery bank is depleted, we have an additional UPS — Yay redundancy! More details about our setup, and node specs are available below.
Shard 2 (primary)
Raspberry Pi CM4 Lite 8GB @ 2.35ghz
GeekWorm CM4 Heatsink
Noctua Fan
Samsung 970 EVO PRO 500GB SSD
Custom build of Raspberry Pi 64-bit Lite OS (bullseye), 5.16 kernel
Shard 2 (back-up)
Raspberry Pi 4 8gb
Heatsink
SanDisk Extreme 500GB USB3 SSD
Raspberry Pi 64-bit Lite OS (buster)