Haha, steal away - but NFA, I don't know if it will work.

I did expand this thought process out into a post of its own.

Next thing for me to research is to look into if I can learn enough to run a validator of my own. Not very technical, but will research. I know bare-metal is the gold standard, but pretty sure I'm not capable of that. Thinking of running on Akash, but gotta learn a lot more first.