After 1.5 years, I shutdown my LN. I feel sad, humbled, like I let bitcoin down.

In short, my time was becoming limited and I was unable to keep up with the maintenance.

I spent 6 hours yesterday trying to understand why LNbITS, running on a remote machine, all of sudden failed to communicate with LND, running locally.

I tried everything….new certs, new macaroons, IP checks, updates, restarts.

After 6 hours, I gave up. LNBITS was the (only) way I could use my node for payments on the go. And if I’m not doing that, it’s not worth it to me. I don’t like tails.

It’s a long story. If I ever decide to run another node, it will be a core lightning node.

I still run my bitcoin nodes at home and the office. Those are easy in comparison.