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 #bitaxe I don’t if I’m wrong and who is reading this but you should consider providing an easy method for the user to set up a VPN or Tor on AxeOS before putting it into operation for the first time. Broadcasting the shares and bitcoin address in clear text is not cool, is it? People run their nodes behind Tor and here comes a miner who is revealing itself freely to the ISP… yes I know, “then run a OpenWrt Router with a VPN on it” but this isn't as trivial as the former. And a self-signed certificate when logging into the DB would also be very nice. 
 You can run your own node and mine to it directly! 
 Yes, I do run my own node. But the communication with the pool is not encrypted. Or am I missing something here? 
 If your miner, stratum server and node are on the same local network, it seems like encryption is unnecessary?