parman_the on Nostr: After years of writing, teaching, coding - I build and ship (worldwide) what I think ...

After years of writing, teaching, coding - I build and ship (worldwide) what I think is the best Bitcoin security setup.

And when someone has a technical issue, it's damn handy that it's my own code, so it's way easier to troubleshoot.

But should you trust me, or anyone, to build a node for you?

Short answer is no, and yes, and well it depends.

To get your hands dirty and run a node soon, and experience what it is, yeah, it's a good idea, but one should continue to learn and for a longer term project, replicate the first node (mostly), with DIY on a second node.

Are there backdoors? No, but you shouldn't trust me, just assume there are back doors and use the machine accordingly, without putting anything sensitive on it.

Your node should not have private keys on it anyway unless you are running a lightning node, then there's no choice.

Also, read my code. It's not as hard to follow what's going on, just a sequence of commands that individually work on the command line. You can learn from the code what Parmanode is doing, it's almost a guide in itself.