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69 sats \ 2 replies \ @anon 3h \ on: So, Cloudflare is just a flakey MITM? builders
Simple solution: Host your own full bitcoin node(s) and lightning node(s).
It costs a few hundred USD up front with minimal monthly maintenance fees. What's needed is an investment of time which can be leveraged using education.
Once you have your own node you too can engage in punitive forms of censorship by disconnecting peers and closing channels with nodes that you don't like.
For example, nodes that use kitsch colors (#ff00eb ewww) or include non-ASCII characters in their alias ;D
aww, cute.
yes... I see your point, and you're correct. I've got a handful of nodes which I sometimes plug in to get latest blocks and then unplug before I nomad around the continent.
I suppose I could keep the nodes running on battery & starlink while driving, but jeez that's an education curve that I've not yet surmounted.
I appreciate your comment though, as it's helping to reenforce the obviousness of your message to me: that I should use the empty 1TB drive in my desk's drawer as the volume storage I'm looking for... it'll be easier with an LLM to support my efforts to mount that badboy by default on reboot, which was the challenge that prevented my success a couple years ago.
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You could have multiple nodes running in different locations and connect to them remotely while you're travelling. But yeah, it's irritating if bitcoin core or lightning crashes while you're away and you can't physically access it to troubleshoot.
I'm not sure how best to deal with this securely. Also not sure how vulnerable self-hosted nodes are to DDOS attacks. Is this why people prefer to host their nodes on a server?
When i close my eyes i still see #FF00EB ;D
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