Been working through various ways to run a #Bitcoin #Lightning node. Here are some footnotes / recommendations:
For the non-technical (EZ MODE): @Voltage (https://voltage.cloud)
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- Cloud hosted
- Pay with #Bitcoin (Roughly $12/mo for lite node)
- For a personal (non-routing) node their "lite node" is more than sufficient
- #Nostr integrations (NIP-05 & lightning address)
For the moderately technical: @Umbrel ☂️ (https://getumbrel.com)
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- Self-hosted (can run on raspi)
- Offers both Core-Lightning & LND (go with LND to start)
- Tailscale is integrated, making everything work really fast (tor sucks)
Option#2 for moderately technical: @Start9 (https://start9.com/)
- Same benefits as Umbrel, but more security minded.
- 2nd place because the only option is to use tor, which is slow and leads to a bad user experience
For the technical folks: Homelab w/ everything installed on a Linux server.
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- You can build whatever stack you want.
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I will post about my setup in a future note. I want to let the dust settle and use it for a while to be certain that it is solid. (Homelab w/ Proxmox + Umbrel / LND / Thunderhub / Lightning Terminal / Voltage Flow)
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Haths Hayward
haths@primal.net
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#Bitcoin | Puravida | 🤙🏼
Anytime I have a UTXO waiting to be confirmed you can count on 30min blocks
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#Nostr is going to change how domain names (TLDs) are used forever.
#Nostr + #Bitcoin + TLD = Digital Property
Get one, in case it catches on.
That feeling when you slap down a bunch of sats to be in the next block, then wait for 30 minutes as the block doesn’t get confirmed and you get pushed out.
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#Bitcoin
Finally digging in to running my own lightning node, and oh boy this is a rabbit hole.
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GM & Pura Vida #Nostr
"The best answer to anger is silence.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
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GM, Stay Humble and #Zap Sats
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WS PV GM
GM, practice patience and gratitude today.
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Testing Something. Please Ignore.
My relays are going to be down for a while. Upgrading my server and reconfiguring.
Relays are too confusing right now. We have to do better.