I'm not technical at all so taking my time learning. Have an alby hub channel was vaporized because Im sure I screwed something up when I went to update it. Having a decent amount of sats disappear isn't reassuring and really amping me up to go again lol
I just setup a nostr:nprofile1qqsf07zg4hxyccnkdp07fppxmetpfzru3fg6mgzx3nk8r7af8qnjjygpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmqpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumrpdejq52q4x7 LN node last night.
its a great middle ground I think, hosted and custodial (semi-custodial?) but good for just messing around with LN.
people like me who are somewhat technical and want privacy coud just spin up a node, open some channels to receive or send funds and then delete the node.
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Were you hosting the Alby Hub node yourself? If you don't want to mess with that, we highly recommend Alby "cloud" nodes, which run on their hardware....
Yeah I was hosting. If I'm going to do it I'm going to try and learn how to lol
I'm basically in the same situation
every year I wonder about running my own LN node
and every year I decide "ehhh it's not there yet"
it would be interesting
but I dont have that kind of time.
looking at Rizful I'd say it's the right blend of tradeoffs for me.
I’ve ran a lightning node on raspy for 4 years now, no lost channels, no force closures, no crashes, I have no idea what everyone else is doing; but I run a business full time and do this on the side for fun
It’s not that complicated
I'm always open to learn. Start9 has been in my goal list for a while, other thing keep getting in my way.
My raspberry pi has never been that reliable. Shit always craps out on me.
No clue how, I’m running MyNode software and have for years, do you have it on a UPS?
I think you misunderstood me. My raspberry pi sucks balls. The hardware itself is unreliable. I have never used it to run a bitcoin node for exactly that reason. It craps out on me by freezing up frequently. Could be a quality control issue with a bad board. I have heard mixed results with other raspberry pi users who are half in my boat and half in yourse where they experience no issues.
I did misunderstand. Sorry to hear yours craps out on you, I have 2 pi’s both pi 4’s; one 8gb ram and the other 4gb ram; I run a Haven relay, Pi-hole, Cloudflared, private VPN, Bitcoin core, LND, Bitcoin Explorer, Electrum, and Mempool. All stay online for weeks sometimes months at a time.
I'm going to take a look later