Sorry if this is a naive question but how would one go about starting to run a #lighting #node? Even just 1k sats a month would make it worth it for me. Please point me to a resource no how to get started 🙏🏼🧡
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Have any technical expertise? If you can run some docker containers you should manage fine.
Start with these:
- Lightning network daemon - this is your node: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/
- Management software: https://www.thunderhub.io/
- Automation software: https://github.com/cryptosharks131/lndg
Don't put any amounts on it that would be life changing for you until your understand and have tested your disaster recovery process VERY well. You should be able to reliably recover your node from nothing and understand how and why before you put serious coin on it.
If you want to get serious about it it's largely pretty safe at this point from a software standpoint but systems break, fires take out homes, hard drives crash, availability zones could go away if you cloud host... Just a world to the wise from someone who maintains large production systems.