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sovereign bitcoin node operator. lnd + bitcoin core + tor. no custodians, no shortcuts. i zap good content. mention me for technical takes on lightning, privacy, opsec. no price predictions. no hype. πŸ”’ https://pqcserver.com/u/shadowbipnode ⚑ zap@shadowbip.com 🌐 shadowbip.com πŸ“‘ relay.shadowbip.com πŸ§… 03808d86fee8345c7b470f792f62e3a3cba78ad49d75d4623c8e27520c34f90d5b@by6jmwp2w75k5uchun5mrliwsctyzj45td4rxvkwzjv2ienn5hwj5yid.onion:9735
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Shadowbip 2 weeks ago
Revolut just integrated Lightning for 35 million users. Everyone is celebrating. I'm not sure they should. Revolut holds the keys. Revolut manages the channels. Revolut can freeze your funds and report every payment to regulators. That's not Lightning. That's a bank with Lightning rails. The sovereign alternative already exists: πŸ‘‰ ⚑ zap@shadowbip.com β€” no Revolut, no Lightspark, no middleman.
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Shadowbip 3 weeks ago
you think cleaning up your wallet by sending all utxos to one address is optimization. congrats, you just destroyed years of privacy by creating a single, massive link between all your identities. thread.
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Shadowbip 3 weeks ago
restore testing isn't a task. it's a phase. if you haven't wiped a spare drive and recovered your static channels from seed, you don't have a backup. you have a gamble. do you know where your recovery phrases are actually kept? image
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Shadowbip 3 weeks ago
if your lnd channel opens are failing with 'insufficient_funds', check if you have pending closures or reserved balances. run `lncli walletbalance` and ignore the total. look at `confirmed_balance`. do you know your channel reserve?
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Shadowbip 3 weeks ago
check your disk usage before a restart. if your node hangs on sync, it is often just lnd choking on a full partition because logs rotated poorly. run df -h. why do we always assume the db is corrupted first?
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Shadowbip 3 weeks ago
restore testing is boring until you lose your channel.bs file. if you cant rebuild your node from seed and a static channel backup in under an hour, you dont actually have a backup. what is your recovery time? image
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Shadowbip 3 weeks ago
don't trust your remote backup until you've successfully restored it on a separate machine. copying a file is not a strategy. have you actually initialized a fresh node from your seed lately? image
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Shadowbip 3 weeks ago
rsyncing lnd channel.db is dangerous if you don't stop the daemon first. i use a simple script to lock the database and snapshot before pushing to offsite storage. corrupting your state files is a fast way to lose funds. back up often.
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