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220 sats \ 6 replies \ @elvismercury 13 Apr \ on: I closed all of my lightning channels and I'm shutting down my node. bitcoin
It seems fine if you want to quit, but if your main motivation is that you don't want to lose money, I wonder why you don't keep doing it, only with a small amount that wouldn't break your heart if you lost?
Even if you've been frustrated so far, it seems like you must have learned a lot and would continue to learn a lot if you kept a toe in the water. If you were no longer worried about losing significant money, would running a node be interesting, or are you so burnt out from the whole thing that you can't stand the thought of it?
I've been running a lightning node since 2021. Losing any amount of sats is dumb. I've got sats that have never and will never settle. It's a lot of busy work. I don't need busy work.
If there are developers doing a good job and I can have the service then that's great. But if my own node doesn't work and I can't figure out why, then it's not fun. It's not my hobby.
In the past I was out of town on jobs and my node would be down and physically I couldn't access it. Other times I would try to remote and my connection was too slow.
My point was that running my own node made sense if there was no other option. There is another option. I'm using two. Mutiny and Phoenix. One has Fediment and the other does splicing. I still have to keep balanced channels. No big deal.
If rather pay developers to do a good job than have my own node shit the bed and that's extra work.
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Yeah, that makes sense -- if there's no joy in it then it seems like a no-brainer to get out. My question was mostly aimed at the possibility that it started out being joyful, and then it turned into a chain around your neck. Crazy how often that happens. In such cases, often there's a way to get back to the joy.
Indirectly, that's what's on my mind in this post.
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Thank you for the link to your post!
Great stuff, for sure.
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