Umbrel is a very popular choice. Myself and many other folks I follow on Twitter use Umbrel themselves.

I can't speak to other solutions, but it works quite well for my needs.

* Few hours later *



Yeah, it's ~8k sats today so far just in fees.

Yeah, well, that's where the circle jerk part comes in. I'm trying to fill up nicehash for real cheap, but kelo keeps draining it, while simultaneously funding it.

Crazy shit, man.

I am within 52,000 sats of breaking even.

EDIT: Just since yesterday, since stats reset for the month.

I think I'm finally seeing The Lightning Network how things are viewed in The Matrix, with all that scrolling code. I don't see the scrolling code any more. All I see is the circle jerk in realtime between kelo and ln.nicehash.com on my Umbrel node, and this shit is better than porn holy cow!!!

Confirmed that I was able to COMPLETELY REFILL a drained 5M sat channel using this strategy within 24 hours holy cow!!!

This is how we're all going to die.

Vaccine shedding with immunocompromised AIDS patient giving birth to a mutant strain of an absolutely new monster that wipes us all out within half a generation...

In theory, yes, but AFAIK, there are no automagic methods of doing this. I am quite very possibly missing some obscure tool or method that more learned node-ops use (Using RTL as the primary management tool)

It's been my complaint all along (Lighting channel state balancing management), and it's an AI project Rick has started working on for me, after setting up his own Umbrel node, but the ranch project is really barreling along at a speedy pace lately, and, well, Rick and a friend are going to start an apiary, and I'm having a compact track loader delivered, that we purchased, so I'll be clearing land for them to set hives, and wildflower fields flanking the hives next week blah blah etc etc

NGL. Really starting to look forward to enjoying country life. It's fucking beautiful out there. So quiet...

In Lightning Network matters, I kinda figured out how to get my channels back into a balanced state, organically, after getting drained to one side.

tl;dr: I set a "normal" free policy for routing peers of something like 1000/100. Bigger nodes get charged higher rates, eg: 1000/350.

Eventually, I'll drain the liquidity, no matter how high I set my fee rate, and the channel ends up going stale if I don't take action on it.

Instead now, when the channel gets drained one way, practically entirely, I basically set my fee rates extremely low, like 0/10, and I start getting a lot of traffic coming back the other way, filling up my drained liquidity again.

Probably blatantly obvious to some, but I'm a tard, and just figured this out on my own over the last 48 hours, and it's working ridiculously well so far to re-fill drained liquidity.

As the channel gets more balanced, I start cranking up the fees, and stuff starts flowing back out the other way, for another round of profit taking on routing.

Neato.

Meanwhile... In Canada...

I'm tempted to delete this for <reasons>, but am too lazy, so... yeah.

EDIT: Anyone hear from Elwar? Noticed his LND channel with me has been down for some time now.

 I just ended up blocking him. His "I'm rich with a loving family and friends" bullshit was the weakest of sauce when really getting savage with him.

 The guy probably cries himself to sleep every night.

Paparazzi shot of Klaus on vacation.

Source on this?

I'm following the developments quite closely, and know that NATO isn't touching Ukraine with a 10-ft pole over angering Russia.

I'm likely to start drinking again if we do the whole Vegeta thing again.

I am SO ABSOLUTELY over it.