Building new channels
Building new channels
Building my new Lightning node (Under Tor with Umbrel this time) took *way* longer than I had hoped. Blockchain download was long, and hard-drive failures were oft. In the end I had to replace hard-drives two times and the entire mini-PC once coz it just wouldn't stop overheating.
But it is finally done, just at exactly the same time as the hard-drive of my old node failed.
I have managed to move the wallet data to the new node, with only a few weeks downtime, and other than apparently one of my peers is offline now I think that's worked.
In the two years or so of the old node running it helped with a total of about 3 transactions.
So the plan is still to shut this node down and build a new one unassimilated with the old IP addresses/IDs.
I'd like to be more useful to the network with the new node than one and a half transactions a year. I don't really care about making any sats profit from it, just wanna contribute to the liquidity flow and keep the channels balanced.
But I have no idea how to open channels which might do that, or about any search systems that could find them.
Anyone got any advice?
Building my new Lightning node (Under Tor with Umbrel this time) took *way* longer than I had hoped. Blockchain download was long, and hard-drive failures were oft. In the end I had to replace hard-drives two times and the entire mini-PC once coz it just wouldn't stop overheating.
But it is finally done, just at exactly the same time as the hard-drive of my old node failed.
I have managed to move the wallet data to the new node, with only a few weeks downtime, and other than apparently one of my peers is offline now I think that's worked.
In the two years or so of the old node running it helped with a total of about 3 transactions.
So the plan is still to shut this node down and build a new one unassimilated with the old IP addresses/IDs.
I'd like to be more useful to the network with the new node than one and a half transactions a year. I don't really care about making any sats profit from it, just wanna contribute to the liquidity flow and keep the channels balanced.
But I have no idea how to open channels which might do that, or about any search systems that could find them.
Anyone got any advice?