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I don’t come to the #Nostr expecting anything, but if you wouldn’t mind boosting this note I’d appreciate it. πŸ™ I’m one of the founders of @Nodestrich ♾️, a community of noderunners on the Nostr, currently with over 340 member nodes and an active Telegram group, where we help new and experienced users connect, share knowledge, and expand the Lightning network together. I started my journey into running a bitcoin and Lightning node in early 2021, when I was one of the first 100 members of Plebnet. Built on a Raspberry Pi4 with 8 GB of ram, my current node, Dan on the Moon now runs 60 channels with a total capacity of nearly 175 million sats. In early January, 2023, soon after joining the Nostr, I realized there was no organized group of noderunners, so I decided to start one along with a few other people. Within 3 months, we had reached 200 members, and are on track to double that by our one year anniversary. Due to the current high-fee environment, my node hardware is struggling under the load. With no way to expand memory and disk space in the current configuration, it's due for an upgrade. Because it runs Umbrel, I've decided the path of least resistance will be to purchase an Umbrel Home, which sells for $500 US, and ships with a migration assistant to seamlessly move all of the existing node data and channels. In the future, I plan to also build a second node on custom-built components, but the current need is to keep this node stable and not end up in a situation where any of my channels get force-closed. If I am able to raise the funds through Geyser, the node will be renamed "The Nodestrich" and will provide more stability for my channel peers, who have been some of the most supportive and helpful people I have met since I started my journey. Thank you! πŸ’œβš‘οΈπŸ«‚
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Replies (49)

↩ replying to MRCX
Yeah, it’s all about the migration. I know it’s technically possible to do it by cloning the drive and copying over the channel data, but it’s kind of a scary prospect at the moment given the number of channels and the risk of force closures. I’ve asked @Umbrel β˜‚οΈ if they had planned to release a standalone migration assistant for custom-built nodes but I haven’t heard of anything being planned or released yet.
↩ replying to Settebello
@The Daniel πŸ–– has been incredibly generous as a Nostr citizen. I’ve known him since December β€˜22 and met him a few times IRL. He’s dedicated an incredible amount of time building the #Nodestrich community, which has helped hundreds of neophyte Nostr users become noderunners. With the fees we are seeing right now, the importance of this work is even more evident and I for one am incredibly grateful that he helped me become a #Nodestrich He has helped out numerous people on their own projects, giving them his time and expertise without asking for anything in return. The @npub1wxl6...hcan logo and @npub1c0nf...g243 branding are his work. He’s been generous as a guest contributor for the @npub19mdu...6vzk , has advised us and helped us improve our product, helped with networking and much more. Perhaps you should pause before passing judgement on someone you don’t know. You could have actually been constructive and spec’d out some hardware for him, but instead you chose to be a dick.
↩ replying to npub1xy54...3urc
Not passing any judgement, I don’t refute anything that he has done for the community. I am just pointing out that the justifications provided for it has no technical ground. If he wants a Umbrel Server from donations since he is a contributing member it’s fine, however where I am not agreeing is the premise that it is a key node with lots a channels therefore the Umbrel Server is a must and not a luxury. It’s just my opinion
↩ replying to Settebello
All good here. πŸ«‚πŸ€ I did consider that I might get some criticism for going that route vs. DIY, but my first responsibility is to my channel peers and keeping them from getting force closed. I am just looking out for them and want to make sure I can transition everything with no issues. I appreciate any and all suggestions on alternative setups.
↩ replying to The Daniel πŸ––
Out of curiosity. What happens if you β€œcopy” everything from the old node to the new. But keep old node as is, I wouldn’t risk turning bot of them online at the same time. Maybe the lightning network explodes. But how I see it, it’s almost risk free. Turn off node, copy everything needed, recover LN on new node, if it works, perfect. If it does t you have your old node and you can try again. Isn’t this how it works?