Run your own node.
That said, I'm coming up on 4 years running my own node and I will tell you that running your own node, in the traditional sense, can come with a lot of work and a lot of headaches troubleshooting problems.
Based on everything that's been happening, I would still say that it's worth the work.
4 years here also. Record uptime without issue is 87 days.
💯 I’ve been running mine for over a year now. There have definitely been some days that I’ve felt like just closing all the channels and turning it off but I do think it is still worth running one.
And if you ever have problems most of the time the community here can help with issues.
I don't care who they kidnap. I don't care what shit laws they pass. If bitcoin doesn't win, we will all be feudal slaves anyway.
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right on, hard and annoying and ABSOLUTELY WORTH IT
Interesting... Can you share some of the problems you had? I have my own node but I didnt have problems besides the fact that I had to wait weeks to sync the blockchain... Im curious as I have not done anything special with this node yet, but I want to use it with btc pay server to track payments.
I personally never had any major issues. A couple years ago I had a database size issues and had to compact that database and prune old failed invoices. I had an SD card die and replaced it. I have since later migrated to a different system and got rid of the raspberry pi. The only major issue I had was 6M sats sitting there in a 1 sat/byte transaction that wasn't an anchor channel so I couldn't bump the fee. The only option I had was to wait for the mempool to clear, which will probably never happen as it sant happened in a year, or pay a miner to include the transaction. I paid.
I've helped probably a dozen friends over the years with their nodes and various problems, mostly related to something breaking on Umbrel, Docker issues, LND issues, or stuck transactions.
Most of the work seems to be managing fees and liquidity and general channel management. I now use Lightning Terminal to do this and basically run a node hands off now for the most part.
