I created more than 3 years ago a Telegram group and collected the best minds in and around Lightning: experts will help anyone on any topic from building a new node to balancing channels to finding reliable peers (and their node owners!) in order to open channels to great peers who you can communicate with.

One thing I did which worked well was to create a Lightning paywall to get into the channel to keep out the noise: the spammers and scammers and even those who vaguely like Lightning but don't contribute enough. It seems that when you pay hard sats to enter a group you use it wisely and don't squander the experience with shitposts lol

Not only that but for every 50 members that entered I would increase the entry price by 30% to reflect the fact that the value of the network had increased - "reassuringly expensive" as Stella Artois once put it in the 1990s!

The current price is 6506 sats, but I am prepared to drop this to 500 sats for the first 5 people who reply to this post with "I want a slice of the magic" (proof-of-reading-entire post lol)

My side channel is free to enter where we discuss some OTs - some around Bitcoin, some not. Feel free to drop in at