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My wife's not in the self custody camp yet -- still working on gradually getting her to bitcoin only. That said, I don't see why you'd have separate nodes. The one consideration I'd see is that you'd want to probably select something like Electrs instead of say, EPS for an electrum server, as EPS needs to do a full resync each time you add a wallet, so Electrs is more suited to multiple users (especially if you think you may be adding little hodlers into the mix...).
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Noshole 10mo ago

I wouldn’t be self-custody either if it wasn’t for my husband. I still have a lot to learn (he had a wicked head start). Right now, we are gonna keep sharing a node, but that Electrs thing sounds interesting. I never heard of it before

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Cykros 10mo ago

It's a simple thing to deploy, and is just an Electrum server. Basically just indexes the chain for faster access to the data your node is validating and storing. There's just a variety of Electrum server options these days, and some are bigger (for say, large nodes intended for large public use -- think Ledger or Trezor), some, like ElectrumX, also work with shitcoins (ew), and others stand out in their own way. EPS sounds great if it's JUST one person as it is a little faster and lighter, but Electrs hit the sweet spot for me.