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 If you’re not validating your own transactions, someone else is doing it for you and can use that information against you. nostr:note1z0lp2lzr3dq0q0vj0sm48qj3lrnfkh95qxv40rczrlpme6v9aynqxr94fj 
 The only way to freely transact is by owning your transactions

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 Are you talking about using your own electrum server and mempool viewer? If so yes I always point my wallets to my home server where possible. Had the samourai servers running but since they got shut down I deleted those apps. Mostly because future updates are questionable. Shame really I love Sentinel Wallet. It was a complete offline solution.  Great for disasters where you can hand someone a signed transaction for payment that they can broadcast immediately through their highly connected business, sms, or starlink. Like handing over a check in the old days. 
 Yes I’m speaking about using your own . I currently run my own