We want people to run full nodes, but the same time we encourage the use of hardware wallets. Using your hardware wallet with your personal full node is not possible, unless you run Electrum Personal Server. It allows you to connect your hardware wallet to your own full node through Electrum, meaning you can have offline private keys while having your own node verify your transactions.

If you have any technical resources and capabilities, I encourage you to look into setting up a full node and use it as your personal gateway to the blockchain with EPS. I managed to do it on a Raspberry Pi, and I'm by no means a technical person. All it takes is patience, persistence and the willingness to learn.

Resources (for Raspberry Pi, any machine at least as powerful will do):
Setting up a full node:
http://raspnode.com/diyBitcoin.html

Electrum Personal Server:

Github https://github.com/chris-belcher/electrum-personal-server

Guide for Pi https://github.com/Stadicus/guides/blob/master/raspibolt/raspibolt_64_electrum.md

Electrum Personal Server helps improve Bitcoin by having people use hardware wallets while running nodes. Consider a donation to the address on their Github to help make Bitcoin more private and trustless for the average user!

Don't trust. Verify.

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