I’ve been procrastinating it for some time now. I should receive a RaspberryPi 5 soon with some other hardware to run a LN node.
Discussion
Can't we run one on the remote server and share it?
A Bitcoin node would also be kinda cool.
Or is there a legal/technical reason why that is a dumb idea?
It’s not dumb, but it’s also less feasible on the remote server.
I would personally rather have all Bitcoin stuff on hardware we can control.
Also, it would require a lot of disk space.
Ah, okay, cool. Yeah, the server could just disappear again, or get frozen by German authorities.
Exactly. Plus, the whole point of running a node is independence from anyone who isn’t me.
I wonder if we could make money on a LN node. Nobody seems to be able to. 😂
yeah, probably not, i think you have to be running big channels to high traffic nodes to catch enough fees, and your fees have to be equal or less than alternative paths