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!

#AskNostr CALLING NETWORK GURUS - PLEASE HELP A BROTHER OUT! Bounty available for any hero that suggests something leading to a fix! Last week my home network suddenly started showing certain devices as 'connected / no internet access'. It seems to only be affecting mobile phones (iPhone and Androids), tablets and the TV. My Linux machine and Macbook are not being affected whatsoever, nor are any ethernet devices like my nodes and security cameras. When these devices show the error, there is nothing apparent that causes it. There is also nothing apparent that allows them to connect again and function normally (for a short time at least). Today my ISP sent me a new router, but that did not fix the issue. There has been no devices added or removed from the network in recent weeks that coincide with the problem starting. Finally, I tried setting a static IP on the router for one of the problem devices, but that made no difference.

Ditch Routers/WiFi. Get an unlimited 5G data plan, and use your phone as a hotspot when you need to access internet on your pc.

Haven't had chance to go anywhere and do any proper testing on that front yet. My phone works fine on 5G when out of the house though.

#AskNostr CALLING NETWORK GURUS - PLEASE HELP A BROTHER OUT! Bounty available for any hero that suggests something leading to a fix! Last week my home network suddenly started showing certain devices as 'connected / no internet access'. It seems to only be affecting mobile phones (iPhone and Androids), tablets and the TV. My Linux machine and Macbook are not being affected whatsoever, nor are any ethernet devices like my nodes and security cameras. When these devices show the error, there is nothing apparent that causes it. There is also nothing apparent that allows them to connect again and function normally (for a short time at least). Today my ISP sent me a new router, but that did not fix the issue. There has been no devices added or removed from the network in recent weeks that coincide with the problem starting. Finally, I tried setting a static IP on the router for one of the problem devices, but that made no difference.