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) **** - 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) **** - 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. **** - You can build whatever stack you want. ********************* 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) *********************

Anytime I have a UTXO waiting to be confirmed you can count on 30min blocks 😭

#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. 😢 #Bitcoin

Finally digging in to running my own lightning node, and oh boy this is a rabbit hole. #Lightning #Bitcoin

GM & Pura Vida #Nostr "The best answer to anger is silence.” ~ Marcus Aurelius #CoffeChain #PlebChain

GM, Stay Humble and #Zap Sats #CoffeeChain #PlebChain

WS PV GM

GM, practice patience and gratitude today. #coffeechain #plebchain

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.