Well that's with a remote node. I tried to sync from scratch as I would have for a Bitcoin node. What was very demanding is the IO.
I'm testing it again, and will compare the CPU time of transaction verification after the initial sync.
npub1w3…t4c5c
2026-02-16 18:11:31 CET
in reply to nevent1q…rqae
Author Public Key
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wss://nos.lolPublished at
2026-02-16 18:11:31 CETEvent JSON
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