I don't want device from the isp in my home. I don't trust it at all to not be doing some bullshit.

Beef up your online bitcoin security by using a private home network 🥷

Self custody is important, now ensure you can always interact & transact without censorship ⚡️

Below is the hardware and software I chose for my simple private home #bitcoin network 🧶

1) APC 1500

Surge protection and battery backup for loss of power without downtime to the network & allowing for proper shutdown of hardware/software.

Plug all your hardware into this.

Screw your internet cable into the back and run an internet cable out.

2) Arris Surfboard SVB3202

This is just a modem, no wifi, no bullshit. Just a nice, but really stupid modem that is just a modem.

Stop using your ISP gateway.

Screw the internet cable from APC into this modem and plug a WAN ethernet line out.

3) Protectli Vault fw4b

This is a four port firewall router plus an auxiliary wifi interface.

This device runs FOSS OPNsense firewall software to protect your home network.

You can decide what comes in and out, separate devices on the network and so much more with this firewall.

Free Open Source Software runs on this dedicated micro computer to control your internet flow.

This is bad ass hardware and Protectli has been rock solid with customer support.

Plug your WAN ethernet from the modem into the WAN port of the vault and plug a LAN ethernet line out.

4) GliNet Flint 1800 WiFi router

This sleek piece of hardware is the ultimate wifi router!

Take complete control of your home internet all from a very nice web based GUI.

This wifi router has four ports and four separate wifi networks each with own password protection.

Easy to add VPN with wiregaurd on the router and run tor on router. Covers every device connected.

Too many features to list including Adguard & DNS.

Plug the LAN ethernet from firewall vault into the LAN port on this wifi router.

5) Start9 DIY home server

I took a used Dell Optiplex 9020 with 8G and put in a 1T SSD in it.

Flashed it with StartOS and added Bitcoin Core.

Sovereignty in bitcoin is to have your own keys and your own copy of the blockchain and verify your uxto sets against your copy that is in consensus.

Tor web GUI allows you full configurations of what services you wish to add such as LND and mempool.

Pair with your lightning wallet and Sparrow Wallet on laptop.

Plug an ethernet line from your server / nodes into an ethernet port on the GliNET WiFi router.

6) Classic X Thinkpad

This is a Bitcoin only dedicated laptop.

No bullshit, only necessary bitcoin things on this device. I got mine from MiniFree.

Coreboot/ Intel ME disabled

Debian

Sparrow Wallet

Tor

Terminal

OPNsense GUI

GLiNET GUI

Start9 GUI

This is the work station you interact with the Bitcoin network on...a clean linux laptop, behind a fire wall, thru a VPN and over TOR on private network isolated network!

All on hardware you own, running FOSS, in your own home.

7) De googled Pixel

Purchase unlocked with cash so as to not have identity tied to an ime number.

Run Graphene, wifi only, airplane mode

This is a secure private mobile device simply for running your hot/ lightning wallet, #nostr and connecting back to Start9 server away from home.

Can add Silent link service if needed.

Now is the time to take back control of your home network. Build a private home network that is representative of the value of what you hold.

Ensure you can always transact without censorship!

No, you are not.

> But no is busty Blue wallet or Sparrows wallet's balls over the same thing.

Nobody is talking about wallets, man! Do you understand when you read something? I am saying that it is wrong to collect XPUBs. Full stop. Say whatever you want but it was wrong, it is wrong and it will be wrong.

You don't have to fool people, you can just accept that privacy "warriors" should not collect naive users' xpubs.

Whats the alternative? How do i coinjoin without giving up my xpub?

I literally just want a card that let's me use my BTC balance with normie vendors

I'd take a debit card

no

Why do you need that though? Stable prices doesn't seem like the goal

If things aren't working out for you maybe you're just not valuable to society.

Stable prices my friend. You need to be able to increase and decrease the amount in circulation to match the amount of products and services on offer at any given point in time.

The fed does that by lending money into existence and controlling the interest rate.

It works so-so but it's the best system we have right now. Silvio Gesell style demurrage would be better

"Bitcoin is for sending and receiving, not gambling."

Using Satoshidice was literally sending and receiving payments between two parties; the values just so happened to be probabilistic.

You. Fucking. Puritan. Moron.

I'm reading a book about cities from Ancient Greece and Italy. What's surprising is that almost all of them went back and forth between aristocracy ruling and democracy. The aristocracy is almost always the rich people that continue to get richer, at which point there's a revolution into democracy where the people take the property and distribute it more "fairly." A new class of rich people emerges which then becomes the aristocracy and the whole cycle begins again.

It's no wonder that before the American Revolution, most people had a very bad impression of democracy. It was almost always something like socialism/communism driven by envy.

Does anyone actually accept phone calls anymore? Not over signal or telegram, but on the actual voice line?