I was impressed with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. It has a full blown PowerShell module where one can fully automate any aspect desired. The other big plus is their free-forever service offering.

I had a paid Proton account for nearly six years, then all of a sudden they decided to suspended my account. Of course, the main support option is to use email. After much horsing around I was able to get the account restored. I'm now no longer a paying customer and slowly moving to tuta.com for email services. We really need a decentralized means of using email. Maybe nostr one day will be able to replace centralized email servers.

See this article. It should work on the mac.
Bitcoin and Cold Storage using VeraCrypt

They should really list PowerShell along with Perl and Python as an option to use with Linux. PowerShell works quite well in the Linux environment.

Only challenge is how to get the lightning channel setup with the wallet.

There is clearly some secret sauce to making this happen, but it I'm totally stumped.

Check out my series of articles Yakihonne on how implement cold storage using Veracrypt.

Missing the "The Creature from Jekyll Island". If one reads this book, they will understand what motivated the creation of Bitcoin.

Ever wonder why we never taught how money actually works in school?

Likely doesn't matter in a self-hosting environment. I been running a pruned Bitcoin node on Oracle Cloud for over a year at ZERO cost.

WTF. Wallets should be singular if your just recommending a single wallet.

Plus, I've never heard of this wallet and I've been into Bitcoin for the last seven years.

Putting final documentation together on self-host your own key/value store using HashiCorp Vault, Veracrypt, Green Wallet, and PowerShell on a Linux setup.

See: https://yakihonne.com/article/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqv9enyt2zcqyug7f8nhjp5r0skt5ayzrl6ytcxmug5q03v7vdcl7qq2kzjm52304s7n42fgkwdtpffv5s6n5gf55xprdlm6

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From my prospective, BTC was intended as an payment system for everyday people. When everyday people are using BTC in trade for services, products, and labor, it will be a success in my book. Until that day comes, I'll just HODL.

I had a paid Proton account for six plus years and then out of the blue my account was suspended. Their support totally sucks and I never did get a good answer as to why the account was suspended. It took about a week of emailing from a different account to unsuspected the account.

I'm no longer a paying customer for Proton and moving to tuta.com as my email provider.

I started out running 3 LND nodes in 3 different geographic regions about a year ago.

Now I'm only running 1 LND node on a free cloud hosting offering. The bottom line is running a node isn't cost effective because the fees collected will never cover the hosting cost. Also, most of the lightning software is beta only and risking a lot in open channels does not make sense at this time.

Up there with Lenny Bruce

For LN node, one has remember that a lightning node should be online 24x7x365 or as close to it as possible. For me this ruled out running it on home hardware.

For my lightning node, I went with hosting it on Oracle Cloud using the free-forever offering using an ARM VM instance and installed Ubuntu. The ARM free-forever option is a 4-core processor, 24GB Memory, and 200GB memory. Next I used the Docker instance of BTCPay server and implemented the LND node instance. This node has been running now for almost a year at ZERO hosting cost.

Here are some related references for your journey on running bitcoin core on your home hardware.

Here is how I roll my own cold storage solution. https://yakihonne.com/article/naddr1qqxnzdesxqungdp5xcurwwp4qgsrpwvez6skqp8z8jfuausdqmu9ja8fqsl73z7pklz9qrut8nrw8lsrqsqqqa280024y8

Yep. GitHub is definitely a weak link. One simply needs to reference Tornado Cash as an example of the risk.

Unfortunately, there isn't a decentralized solution as good as Github. Maybe Gitlab but is has the same exposure.

Perhaps, its time to start developing git integration with nostr.