How to host/use nodes storage effectively? : Monero | Torhoo darknet markets

So recently I have been trying to find out safe ways to exchange to XMR. Luckily this wasn't too hard and the Monero guide and the DNM guide helped me quite a lot. The only thing I really stumbled upon was the fact that you should never send your XMR to a market without going through a (preferably new) adress on your own wallet located in Tails. Because I rather not risk 3rd party wallets sharing information like I believe Cake did to Chainalsys who then forwarded it to the FBI. So I picked just the official Monero wallet GUI application. Only to realise it is quite significantly safer to host/store nodes on your own or at least a part of the nodes. Unfortunately these take up a lot of space and from what I have seen all the explanations use a 2nd ssd/usb. Now I dont have this and even if i could use the flash USB i would only have 30GB of space.

This leads me to question 1: Could I somehow someway host the nodes or at least a part of them, on the harddisk of a laptop? (This would be the same laptop that Tails would run on).

Since I couldn't find a good answer on this question by scouering guides and forums I found something else including Public nodes and VPS (I will be honest that I haven't dug really deep on this topic). The only thing was most guides I used previously did not include these or had links to a sister guide with an invalid onion link.

This leads me to question 2: Are there any good guide's or straight up answers on how to maximize safety while not hosting nodes yourself?




I am hoping to learn more and would appreciate a help out :).

Stag