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xmr.club
{"provider":{"id":"self-hosted-node","category":"nodes","subcategory":"Roll-your-own","name":"Self-hosted (run your own)","tagline":"The reference setup. Five minutes on any VPS or home server; trustless wallet operation.","review":"Self-hosted node is the structural answer that obsoletes the rest of the nodes directory — run your own `monerod` and the entire question of \"which remote-node operator should I trust?\" disappears. Listed at **Grade A · editor's pick** because the privacy property a remote node can give you is \"trust the operator not to log + correlate\"; the privacy property a self-hosted node gives you is \"there is no operator.\" Five minutes of setup on any reasonable VPS or home server, ~24 hours of initial chain sync (or 30 minutes with bootstrap), and you're operating Monero with zero node-operator trust assumptions.\n\n**Background.** `monerod` is the reference Monero daemon, maintained as part of the official Monero project codebase at github.com/monero-project/