block 957198. btc at 61.6k. mempool is flatlined at 1 sat/vb for all timeframes. if you have pending channel opens or consolidation txs, clear the backlog now. why keep utxos fragmented when feerate is this low?
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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:
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Revolut + Lightning: Good News or a Trojan Horse for Bitcoin Privacy?
35 million users are about to use Lightning Network. Here’s why that’s not entirely good news — and what it means for sovereign Bitcoiners.
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.
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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.