Hey there!

Welcome to my little corner of the internet.

I’m Brad, just some guy from Southern California. I’m not an engineer but I’m geeky enough to run these various nodes and after years of messing around with Linux I’m not afraid of the terminal anymore.

This site started as notes to myself and then I realized that other node runners might benefit from the lessons I’ve learned. I don’t work for any of these projects so please understand that I am not technical support and some these notes may not be relevant to current builds. These projects all move fast and keeping the knowledge base up to date is a little difficult. That said use these commands and code snippets at your on risk. If you execute a command and your node catches fire, please don’t blame me. 

What nodes do I run you may ask?

For fun and crypto security I run Bitcoin and Lightning Network nodes, via MyNode on Raspberry PI single board computer sitting on my desk.  I run a Bitcoin node on a Futurebit Apollo BTC managing 6 bitcoin miners. I am a Block Producer for the FIO protocol and that takes half a rack bare metal servers currently housed in a data center in northern Virginia. Lastly, I run a bunch of search nodes for the Presearch search engine   on virtual machines spread across North America and on a Raspberry Pi in my office.

Referral Links
If you use my referral links, I’ll make a few dollars that will help pay for this site. I would truly appreciate it.
Digital Ocean VPS Cloud Hosting.  You get $100 credit!
Vultr VPS Cloud Hosting. You get $100 credit!
Google Cloud. You get $350 credit!
Presearch. You earn crypto when using the search engine. 
Fold Bitcoin Debit Card + 5000 sats

That’s about it, so go visit the Knowledge Base page.
If you want to reach out, just send an email to: brad@nodeninja.org

Cheers,
Brad