Hey man, can you explain how all these RPis are causing the network issues? Are a lot of pi's crashing and screwing up routes? I have been running 3 different pi nodes with ssd and they are working ok. You mentioned "DC card", do you mean the micro SD card? Anyway im always interested in learning and would love to increase the reliability of my node. Can you help provide a list of suitable hardware that someone could use to build a more reliable node?
I am tired of people running shity nodes on RPi. They are stubborn in not want to understand that their shity node crashing could affect the whole network.
When these people will learn that they can still run a PRIVATE node (with unannounced channels), that are enough to pay the beer/coffee over LN.
https://stacker.news/items/402904?commentId=402941
FFS throw that RPi node to the fucking garbage!
When people will understand that the weak point for RPi nodes is the DC card and the USB cable that is literally fucking the data drive?
BTC and LN require a huge traffic I/O for both SD card and the data drive (no matter you use SSD or HDD). The simple fact that the drive is NOT internal is fucking this I/O traffic. And your node always get fucked.
If you want to run a PUBLIC ROUTING node, then get a fucking SERIOUS machine, with INTERNAL drives and in RAID. Also have 100% good maintenance and a lot of liquidity.
FFS stop running public nodes with less than 1BTC liquidity!
Discussion
Yes was misspelled DC is the SD card I refer to.
I wrote several guides about nodes:
- https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/lightning-node-maintenance
- https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/recommendations-for-ln-users
- https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/private-lightning-nodes
- https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/managing-lightning-node-liquidity
... and many more on my substack