Oh, and if you want a maximally private node, you can’t use the internet. I feed my node via broadcast satellite…Blockstream broadcasts all new transactions, new blocks and all old blocks on a loop. All you need to do is setup a receiver and you can feed your node everything it needs (modulo trusting that Blockstream doesn’t spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to create fake but valid proof of work block headers!)
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That's pretty cool.
A lot of satellite hardware is sitting around as junk. My house came with an old dish and all I had to do was replace a $10 LNB (the part in the middle of the dish), buy a (then) $20 usb radio adapter, and install Blockstream software (and turn the dish to the right satellite).