Damus
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I am tired of people running shity nodes on RPi. They are stubborn in not want to understand that their shity node crashing could affect the whole network.

When these people will learn that they can still run a PRIVATE node (with unannounced channels), that are enough to pay the beer/coffee over LN.

https://stacker.news/items/402904?commentId=402941

FFS throw that RPi node to the fucking garbage!


When people will understand that the weak point for RPi nodes is the DC card and the USB cable that is literally fucking the data drive?
BTC and LN require a huge traffic I/O for both SD card and the data drive (no matter you use SSD or HDD). The simple fact that the drive is NOT internal is fucking this I/O traffic. And your node always get fucked.

If you want to run a PUBLIC ROUTING node, then get a fucking SERIOUS machine, with INTERNAL drives and in RAID. Also have 100% good maintenance and a lot of liquidity.
FFS stop running public nodes with less than 1BTC liquidity!
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Nate Flateau · 137w
You had me right up to the last sentence. Your last sentence sounds a lot like “just stop being poor”.
Cyph3rp9nk · 137w
amén
Emperor Kuzco · 137w
You'd be lucky to successfully run a personal node. Umbrel sucked and locked up my entire network and Start9 would always fault out trying to login. Unplugged the RPi, formatted and repurposed the SSD. Next adventure might be a Futurebit hobby miner.
brah · 137w
Lol my rpi ran fine for 3/4 years. Just shut it down on my own the other day for now 
ndr · 137w
I agree with that. Use private channels if you don't mind to route , and keep well working your node. However I'm corious what are the main failures that disrupt the network . hardware failures? Disrupted network connection ? Unbalanced channels?
kubernetes · 137w
Many people think you have to run a routing node to use LN when in reality it's fine to run an edge node that just does payments. I think that's where the RPi node would shine.
Paul Allen · 137w
I don't know how many node tutorials I've watched that never mentioned this. Video creators (probably unintentionally) give the impression that everyone running a Lightning node is beneficial (like running a Bitcoin node) but based on your experience it seems that running one with the wrong hardware...
Eluc · 137w
My concern is that if we follow your recommandation, then 99% of the Lightning nodes would be edge nodes connected to the top 10 largest routing nodes almost all run by corporation and mostly exchanges. Maybe it will make the Lightning network (slightly) more reliable and faster but it will surely ...
₿randon · 137w
Hey man, can you explain how all these RPis are causing the network issues? Are a lot of pi's crashing and screwing up routes? I have been running 3 different pi nodes with ssd and they are working ok. You mentioned "DC card", do you mean the micro SD card? Anyway im always interested in learni...
Sovran Systems · 137w
Correct, you need good hardware and a good setup. Running on an SD card that is external is no good.
deleted · 137w
Blixt with 3 to 5 private channels, persistent mode, lightning box for ln address receiving is the end place for most people. And it works really well!