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Run your personal server with a Bitcoin and Lightning node in your home, self-host open source apps like Nextcloud and Matrix to break away from big tech, and take full control of your data. For free. All our interactions on the internet today are mediated by a few companies who offer “free” services in exchange for storing our data on their servers to spy on us. Running a personal server fundamentally changes that. You and your family’s photos, videos, files, notes, passwords, everything,...

Bitcoin Core connects to the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network to download and fully validate blocks and transactions. It also includes a wallet and graphical user interface, which can be optionally built. Bitcoin Core requires a one-time download of about 400GB of data plus a further 5-10GB per month. By default, you will need to store all of that data, but if you enable pruning, you can store as little as 6GB total without sacrificing any security.

...With this guide, you can set up a Bitcoin and Lightning node from scratch, doing everything yourself. You will learn about Linux, Bitcoin, and Lightning. As a result, you’ll have your very own RaspiBolt node, built by you and no one else. Let your node validate your own Bitcoin transactions. No need to ask someone else to tell you what’s happening in the Bitcoin network. Connect your wallets to your node so that you no longer need to reveal their whole financial history to external servers. Run your own Lightning node for everyday payments and help building a robust, decentralized Bitcoin Lightning network. ...