Hi guys, back again!

I did not pay much attention to my cryptos for a few years but obviously now things are getting exciting. Also I did read up a bit here and there on monero to see about the progress.

I remember on an old laptop, a few laptops ago I have monero running from the command line and that was awesome. So now I installed it again.

Do I need to first run ./monerod and wait until everything is done? ( Do I need to do that at all?)

Or can I run ./monero-wallet-cli and will that than trigger the node on the background?

I have some space so I would not mind running a node (not sure how big it is these days) .

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Thx!