Don’t tell us you’re still storing all your highly private data with privacy invasive companies like Google, Microsoft or Apple? You know, the ones that have and will loose your data and give it to multiple nation state surveillance programs? That sounds really bad!

Most think it’s too hard to fully host their own data, but with the huge improvements in computer hardware and open source software it’s now literally cheaper and easier to setup than buying a mobile phone. It’s also where Umbrel comes in....

This ultimate guide is also the culmination of almost 10 other dedicated guides to help people buy, build and setup their own Umbrel node as well as configure all their wallets and exchanges with it too. We'll also be getting around to other node operating systems soon enough too 👍