Is there such a thing as a “hosted” bitcoin node, sort of like if I were to run StartOS on an old laptop, or the way that Alby Hub or Voltage offer hosted Lightning nodes, only for on-chain? Of course it would be a reduction in sovereignty but I’d imagine you could still get decent privacy if it were encrypted…

Would this basically just be a VPS for running a Bitcoin node? If this were E2E encrypted, would it be sufficiently private for your average user (ie not the target of government/LE/hackers)? Same tradeoff in terms of hardware dependency I guess, but at least as far as having a reliably online, dedicated setup, that isn’t physically connected to you?

I’ve been thinking about redundancies for security, geographic arbitrage, etc., and thinking it might be interesting to run a node that isn’t dependent on my ISP and electricity provider. Better still if purchased privately and accessed via Tor.

Any rec’s for a VPS provider, if the above concept is feasible?

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