Opened your first Lightning channels and can't receive? Your capacity is all on your side. Use Lightning Loop to swap sats out to an on-chain address without a custodian, freeing room to receive, all from your own node.
That spare PC in the closet could be a Bitcoin node. MyNode runs on PCs and servers, Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 and VirtualBox or VMware VMs. Add a 2TB+ drive and you're verifying your own transactions.
Cold storage is supposed to sit still. Canary on MyNode watches your wallets and sends a push notification the moment coins move. The best alert is the one you never get.
