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Mention disabling Hyper-Threading and mention ECC

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* Disk space: 300 GB (235GB for Bitcoin blockchain + some room)
* Bitcoin Core pruning is not supported at the moment because it's not supported by c-lightning. It's possible to use pruning but you need to know what you're doing.
* RAM: 2GB of memory
* RAM: 2GB of memory. ECC memory is better.
Tested hardware includes [pcengine's apu2c4](https://pcengines.ch/apu2c4.htm)

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Tutorial: install and configure NixOS for nix-bitcoin on your own hardware
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## 0. Preparation
1. Optional: Disable Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) in the BIOS
Researchers recommend disabling (SMT), also known as Hyper-Threading Technology in the Intel® world to significantly reduce the impact of speculative exacution-based attacks (https://mdsattacks.com/).
## 1. NixOS installation
This is borrowed from the [NixOS manual](https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html#ch-installation). Look there for more information.