People are really sleeping on the sovereignty that @Start9, @OCEAN, and a #bitaxe (or other miners) enable.
1. Buy or build a Start9 server.
2. Run Bitcoin Knots.
3. Run DATUM. Run it solo or pooled. Your choice.
4. Run a bitaxe or other miner and point it at your DATUM server.
5. Run a CLN node and open some channels (get some inbound liquidity too).
Now you're controlling your own data, running a bitcoin node, mining with block templates that you've set the rules to, earning the hardest money we have, and getting paid directly to your node. Sovereignty and network decentralization are unmatched.
