Your posts including this one are always extremely refreshing and interesting to read!
Wish you all the best with your goals!
Once you got your witness-server running, make sure you got good failover- & price feed scripts (e.g. https://github.com/therealwolf42/witness-essentials)
PS: Alan Watts is amazing - I really enjoyed this audiobook of him Out of your mind. Check it out when you find the time.
thanks @therealwolf! lots to go through lol. Ah i've checked that audiobook out before, agree that it's highly enjoyable