I've missed that. What's up with DuckDuckGo?
Censoring Russian sites.
#LNMETA
Learned that the "lntop" utility, with Routing view enabled, is unbelievably helpful to see what is happening in realtime with your node. What transactions are being broadcast, what you are picking up vs what you are dropping due to not meeting your fee requirements.
This has been a useful tool for recognizing routes that I have priced too high, if I'm looking to fee chase - something I am *NOT* looking to do right now, but instead, trying to do the deepest dive I've yet done on Lightning.
Lowered my connection requirements for peers to 7,500,000 sats to encourage more organic routes coming my way.
The experiment continues, much slower, safely, and methodical this time. Not doing anywhere near an S9 in daily fees, but that is not the goal this time around.
I want to try to build this node to last, permanently.
Off to a semi-decent start I think.