Guides

Decision trees and field notes for people past the marketing slideshow — each guide links to hardware, setup, and the commands library.

Honest decision tree: when a home node helps, when it is overhead, and what problem you are actually solving.

Storage math, trust equivalence for validation, and who needs a full archival node.

RPC localhost binding, firewall defaults, updates, and what not to expose on home or VPS nodes.

Optional Tor setup, realistic privacy wins, and limits no marketing page will admit.

Weekly, monthly, and release-day checklists for keeping Bitcoin Core healthy without over-touching it.

Read verificationprogress, headers vs blocks, peers, and disk — fix real stalls without reinstalling Core.

Safe recovery when disk fills during IBD or steady state, plus honest prune limits and VPS volume math.

Bill of materials, NVMe-first setup, aarch64 binaries, prune defaults, and when an N100 mini PC is the better buy.

Clear split between Bitcoin Core validation and Electrum/electrs indexing — RAM, disk, and who needs which.