Agreed.

My start9-node has been running btc, eletcrs, lnd and more smoothly for about a year now and the only thing i can actually complain about is: Tor-only and not even tunnelsats will do as a workaround.

But they promised to give us options, so we wait.

Again, it depends.. on your skills and preferences.

Easiest way would be to just install startOS from start9, or umbrel.

I run both, kinda like startOS more, although it does everything (and i mean EVERYTHING) thru Tor, which is quite slow even on .local

devs say clearnet-options will come soon™, so we wait.

In the meantime i installed umbrel, to try it out and get clearnet-connections.

But if you wanna learn you can build and install everything yourself on a basic ubuntu or something, done that a couple of times too.

It's no rocket-science, if you can read tutorials and follow instructions you're good to go.

Depends on what you wanna do with it, I guess.

For a "pruned" node 10GB might do,

for the full blockchain with UTXO set, txindex and stuff it's more like ~750 right now, so I'd recommend a minimum of 1TB, better make it 2.

Cost-effectiveness (is that word?).

It's simply cheaper to swap LN->Liquid->BTC than it is to swap LN->BTC.

Maybe you should talk to them.

I mean, between Dial-a-Song and the TMBG Clock Radio they were always up for crazy stuff like that.

I'm so jealous, would love to be there and see them.

tunestr?

Any #noderunner using #peerswap to manage channel-liquidity? Worth looking into it, or am I wasting my time waiting for the Elements Core IBD?

Right now I'm using Aqua wallet (to avoid lots of small on-chain UTXOs), but the fees add up quickly and while I'm setting up a new node anyway, I thought maybe p2p-swaps would be a better option.

What do you think?

https://www.peerswap.dev/

Findest Du? Ich weiß nich...

gibts denn noch irgendeinen anderen Grund, oder geht's Dir nur um den "Spaß"? Ich versteh nämlich nich, was der Sinn daran sein soll.

Wenn Du Geld von Investoren einsammeln würdest, wäre das sinnvoll, aber Du verkaufst doch nur 3D-gedrucktes Zeug.

Let's go Joe < Let Joe Go

Will we be able to batch-open channels, too?

That would be amazing.

I loved the one with lightning last time already, but that mountain looks great too.

Thanks.

Yes, I was surprised myself about how fast it went thru.

Currently reindexing another node which is only at 10% after ~14hrs, seems that it'll take longer than this IBD.

https://m.primal.net/IzDA.webp

Took less than 46hrs this time on a pretty old laptop (>10years)

AMD A8-4500M, 16GB

Thanks,

but luckily it's just an #umbrel testing-node I just recently installed and it has zero funds on it, so no biggie if it doesn't work/takes ages.

My main node is still up and running (on #start9).

Need to reindex due to corrupt chainstate/db

https://m.primal.net/IyfX.webp

I won't ever win this waiting game, will I?

Is that why you're hodling?

And yes, you are cheaper then other LSPs, at least for the "smaller" channels, comparing 10m-channel prices there's others cheaper than you and only because your 10m channels are twice the price of 5x2m channels. I said it gets worse, the bigger the channel is.

I get that (A+B), but the funds-at-risk are the same in both described situations!

To open 2x2m channels you need 4m funds and I pay you 10k sats,

to open 1x4m channel you need 4m funds and I pay you 15k sats.

The on-chain fees are obviously higher on the 2x2m channels option, yet it is cheaper for me to buy them instead of 1x4m.

That's what doesn't make sense to me.

Yes and yes.

Sending sats to themselves is basically what people do when they "rebalance" channels (and not loop/swap out/in sats from off- to on-chain, or Liquid).

Opening a channel to your 2nd node does only connect your 2 nodes, if none of them has any other channels, you're in the same position as before.

It makes sense especially if you want to receive. To receive you need inbound liquidity on the channel, if you open a (unbalanced) channel yourself you have outbound liquidity and can't receive anything before you sent something out first.