You won't have much trouble. Have been running my own for years now and aside from minor connection issues in very isolated cases (mainly Tor / provider hiccups) I stand behind their products vehemently.
Best of luck! Enjoy sovereignty!
A new era begins for me…
- 2022 first personal BTC purchase and immediately put in cold storage (cold card)
- 2023 put both of my (tiny) LLCs on a bitcoin treasury
- 2024 finally get control of my BTC IRA keys
- 2025 hoping to have a bitcoin full node and Alby hub setup in January…not sure I can get it all done by end of 2024 because of travel plans
Excited but a tad trepidation. I haven’t setup a server since setting up a business Windows Server probably 23 years ago?? I’ve setup plenty of SQL Server and Oracle instances, and lots of BI deployments, but I’ve always preferred the development work versus operations or implementations.
Seriously, I’ve been a tennis pro/health coach/personal trainer for the last almost 7 years. Plan on relying on the nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll forums/groups as well as nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8 videos.
And maybe a little cursing…
Discussion
I'm sure I'll be checking out the forums - and BTC Sessions videos - for what all to deploy and leverage. My sats tend to be in cold storage on hardware devices with Sparrow read-only. But I've started doing a few Lightning transactions. Just like I hope to be "part of the solution" by running a bitcoin node, I'll be researching the effort/risk of a Lightning node.