Using Your Hardware Node Every Day
Point your phone and desktop wallets at your own hardware node — on your network and remotely over Tor — and keep it healthy.
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Point your phone and desktop wallets at your own hardware node — on your network and remotely over Tor — and keep it healthy.
A practical build: the parts you need, why an SSD matters, and setting up a low-power always-on Monero node yourself.
What ready-made Monero node devices like MoneroNodo are, what they include, and who they're for.
The hardware that powers self-sovereign Monero — node appliances, single-board computers, and hardware wallets — and which you actually need.
How blockchain pruning works, what it keeps and drops, when to prune, and how to run a pruned node that still fully validates.
Read the Monero network live — current transaction fees, block reward, difficulty and the total circulating supply — straight from your node or a block explorer.
Open your node to the world: configure monerod as a public RPC node, serve it over Tor and clearnet, and help the community without risking your own privacy.
How P2Pool gives you pool-like steady payouts while keeping mining decentralized.
Hiding the network layer with Tor and I2P so your IP doesn't undermine Monero's on-chain privacy.
Advanced: run your own self-hosted BTCPay Server to accept Monero payments directly — no processor, no middleman, full self-custody.
Routing your wallet and node over Tor to hide your IP from the network.
Your own node vs a remote node, the privacy trade-offs, and a full step-by-step guide to installing and running monerod yourself.
How Monero obscures which node a transaction came from, and why network-level privacy matters.