My 1 month pleb Lightning Node update

With minimal micromanagement and 11 total channels, these are my stats over after 1 month of routing

Forwards = 728

Volume = 18,164,162 sats

Average route = 24,951 sats

Fees earned = 5,744 sats

What’s the best Bitcoin hardware wallet for tracking multiple accounts/addresses with good UX as I stack sats for my daughter?

I’ve been so used to stacking for myself/family as a single account/balance but want to separately track hers to hand it off one day.

On today's episode of NEED runs a node from his

@start9labs

home server...

- I purchased some inbound liquidity using

@getAlby

Hub. This was really cool and definitely wasn't this easy back when I was running a node just 2 years ago! Alby Hub has so many great features and ways to connect to other Lightning apps/wallets. ✅

- I moved a good chunk of on-chain sats to my node in anticipation of opening a few channels. I'll be opening first to

@predyx_markets

to continue my support of their awesome Lightning-enabled platform! ⚡️✅

- I did my first server wide backup including all apps. Not trivial, but again, easy-to-follow instructions are included by Start9, and so far, every single issue I've run into has been promptly solved after asking a question in their 24/7 live support Matrix forum ✅

- I followed more instructions to ensure I have a secure https local browser connection. ✅

- I found a nostr relay service in the Start9 registry marketplace - I'll be exploring these instructions soon so I can start my own nostr relay!

This is all frickin' awesome and so empowering. Every Bitcoiner should run their own server and node. Do it!

Set up a new node today... It's going to be my alternate implementation node.

Current node is nostr:nprofile1qqs9df4h2deu3aae83fmet5xmrlm4w5l9gdnsy3q2n7dklem7ezmwfcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz3rhwvaz7tekd3jks6rev3ehyargv9nk66tnxe6h2dn5w43kuerk0fmnwcm4vfc8z6mgweu8j7fhdfhkjmmrxs6k66mnwg6x2cty9ehku6t0dchsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wghxjmnxduhs5nd6j2, Bitcoin Core & LND

New node is Umbrel, Knots & CLN

Excited to get some experience with the other popular software 🔥

Just got an email from a dem office about meeting

Coincidence from today’s legislation?

Yeah, definitely not 😂

Better late than never!

every time I watch this one video about fractals I fall asleep

I can’t get through even like three minutes it’s incredible

on that note good night probably

Having a lightningnetwork.plus agreement (21907) with nostr:nprofile1qqs2gh7vmtuf5ty746llpc6xfxuawv5m9zf3xh6ax3zldyu2rrde2espzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcdtgd9p. 🫂

I've been traumatized by seeing too many photos of people storing my wine on their shelf in the sun.

Y'all are rug pulling yourselves 🍷

High Elevation Wine Farming Works without chemicals

(while most other regions depend on them)

If it's not cold, and it's not dry, you're going to have pest, disease or fungus problems. Most U.S. wine regions don't offer both which is why farming organically is nearly impossible.

On the extreme difficulty end of the spectrum, Virginia (2% of US wine production) is too hot and too humid. Summer rain fuels black rot, downy mildew, powdery mildew, and botrytis. Only three vineyards in the entire state are certified organic.

The Finger Lakes (0.5%) are cold, but still humid. Same diseases.

California (81%) is dry, but pest pressure is extreme. They fight Pierce's disease, phylloxera, and leafroll virus with a mix of chemicals and integrated pest strategies.

Fighting all of these issues is while remaining organic can be like fighting against inflation by holding treasury bonds. Its just not affective enough and is the main reason why only 0.4% of the wine grapes grown in the USA are produced organically.

The best way to avoid these issues is to find a place that is just cold enough to kills pest and just dry enough to stave off infection while also not being too cold and too dry to be able to actually farm.

Only small pockets of these zipper zones exist around the USA and they do come with their own challenges, but Colorado's West Elks AVA is one of them.

Here we farm at knifes edge between the Rocky Mountains and the Utah Desert. At 6,000+ feet, the winters kill off most threats and the arid summers prevent mildew.

The tradeoff? Most vines can't survive here and even the ones that do get frozen back to the ground (destroying an entire vintage) every few years.

Despite being known as a finicky grape, Pinot Noir thrives here. Chardonnay, Gewurztraminer and Riesling do too.

Our Wine Region is small, but this climate allows us to punch above our weight.

Gm

Wake up, play with my daughter, get her down for AM nap, work on nostr:npub1fpcd25q2zg09rp65fglxuhp0acws5qlphpg88un7mdcskygdvgyqfv4sld, work on stacking goals, spend time with the fam and walks outside

Gonna be a great day