Blitzbold node currently offline. Back online in a few days!

Is zerofreerouting going down the reason for the drop in fall of 2022???

Running a ⚡lightning node often feels like caring for a Tamagotchi!

Approved!

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What tools make the life of a ⚡lightning node operator simpler? What are you using?

Here is our opinionated incomplete list:

1. Tunnelsats (VPN service for hybrid Clearnet/Tor)

2. LNDg (fee and rebalance management)

3. rebalance-lnd (script for rebalancing)

4. Network UPS Tools (power management)

5. Nextcloud (to store static channel backups)

6. Amboss (LN explorer, liquidity/channel market)

7. Thunderhub (general node management)

8. Mempool (block explorer, onchain fee overview)

9. charge-lnd (script for fee policies)

10. ln-charts (overview of earnings/costs)

11. Balance of Satoshis (dual funded channels)

12. LNnodeinsight (LN explorer, channel simulator)

13. LN+ (LN explorer, find channel peers)

Please 👉 share and 👇 comment!

Thank you!

Mine: SSD disk failures and random force closures!

What do you fear most as ⚡lightning node operator???

1. getting doxed or hacked

2. power outages

3. hardware failures

4. yourself being dumb

5. Force closures

6. Messing around with static channel backup or channel.db

...so many variables! Curious about your experiences!

👉 share and 👇 comments welcome!

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Might zap back!

The flow moment as ⚡ lightning node operator: observing forwards with alternating directionality on a channel pair! ☯️

Yeah...reaching rhe nostr (mountain) tops sounds better! 🗻

Zapped you 💨

Zappanoid! 🥸

Zabadiee Zapps! 💥

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👋 #[2] check this node out!

Thanks #[1], nice new feature!

👋 Hello you #nostr lightning node runners out there!

Thank you! Great discussion that eludes to fundamentals of consensus. Reminds me a lot about discussions around block size back in the days...

One more layer...

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