Update re: Nodelou🐈

As many of my peers already know, the node suffered a catastrophic hardware failure and after initial investigation and troubleshooting it looks like I will have to use SCB to close all remaining channels– only two weeks shy of our three-year nodeiversary. 😿

While we were away for a few days, during the night of October 6th at approximately 12:43am EDT we experienced a power loss and then a large power surge of some kind, likely due to a wind event in our immediate location. This somehow led to the loss of *both* NVME system drives ☠️ which were configured in ZFS (RAID1)– Those drives sadly also housed the .lnd data directory for Nodelou🐈.

While I do have a fully working copy of the VM, including all LND data, that backup dates from a few days before the incident, so it would be unwise to come back online with out of date channel states– meaning we will have to close all remaining channels and rebuild the node completely.

Any channels with pending HTLCs have already been automatically force closed, but any other channel peers with Nodelou are welcome to close whenever they wish. I will issue the SCB sometime later tonight or tomorrow, depending on mempool conditions which should close any remaining channels at that time.

Thank you to all my solid channel peers, everyone that reached out during the downtime, everyone that has ever offered help and support over the past three years– So many great people in this community! I apologize for all the FCs (DM if you’d like reimbursement for fees incurred). Nodelou🐈 will rise again (with PostgreSQL and replication!)– But for now I need to focus on family and a number of important IRL commitments and worries that require my attention and mental space.

So long, and thanks for all the cats! 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈

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