Tailscale/Wireguard VPN solutions was something on my checklist to look into as I’ve been wanting to setup a home vpn route - thanks for the tip!
I had def thought about keeping both RE: btc on one machine, which is why I haven’t configured anything yet cause I wasn’t sure how to map it, but the Ram/storage on both are modest @ 16GB ram and like a 512gb m.2 - which is why I was thinking splicing the two across having 1 dedicated machine each initially. The cpu is a pretty recent i5 iirc 🤔