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I had an Umbrel (homemade) running the BTC blockchain for a year or two, and about 5 or 6 months ago, they upgraded to version 2.0 (I believe), and it broke. I spent a good deal of time and never got it back. I then tried up $300 and bought their own server device and got it here, plugged it in, and...

Welcome Chris!

Welcome on board! I've run the Bitcoin Node for about 3 years now without doing anything else with umbrel/the umbrel store. Just a week ago i got off my butt and tried to do the impossible: Setting up my own lightning node. Check out Alby/Alby Hub/Alby Extension first, which makes the LN-setup easy ...

Congrats!!