I'm interested in setting up a mining node but having to download the entire blockchain makes it daunting in terms of the storage required.
In particular I'd like to use XMR-Stak miner and use it maybe to mine Monero.
Is it possible to do this? I understand you can configure a wallet to connect to a remote node. I wonder if its possible to do a similar thing with a mining node.
of course you will need to get the chain, but you can start sending coins there b4 its synced
you just wont be able to spend the coins till the chain is synced
keep in mind you can just use a ledger address, or in some cases an exchanges address (refer to their faq tho as some exchanges do NOT support this)