🕴️ Anonymous poll: Your LND node is running on...? \ stacker news ~lightning

🕴️ Anonymous poll: Your LND node is running on...?

532 sats \ 18 comments \ @supratic 12h lightning

In this poll, the options below are listed together without prejudice in alphabetical order, but are from two much different categories self-hosted and cloud-hosted Lightning nodes.

self-hosted	cloud-hosted
MyNode	BTCpay Server
RaspiBlitz	Nodana
Start9	VOLTAGE
Umbrel

Note: Not all options are listed, so add yours in the comments below if not in the list.

BTCpay Server14.3%

MyNode0.0%

Nodana0.0%

RaspiBlitz3.6%

Start917.9%

Umbrel28.6%

VOLTAGE7.1%

OTHER, I'll comment below28.6%

28 votes \ 11h left

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343 sats \ 3 replies \ @aljaz 12h

i'm not sure that categorization makes sense. btcpayserver is not a way of hosting, it just a project that also packages a lightning node with it. Also all of the software you listed under "self hosted" can be run anywhere. sure most of them also sell hardware, but you can easily run umbrel on AWS, not just on a raspi at home.

self hosting, at least by wikipedias definition doesn't mean that the hardware needs to be in your basement but that you maintain (at least parts) of the infrastructure, namely the virtual machine/server.

so i think the poll is a bit weird because 5/7 options are software projects. 4/7 also do hardware. 2/7 are infrastructure providers for nodes in the cloud, arguably still self custodial (i'm not familiar with nodana's security model), tho the trust model includes voltage in it.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @supratic OP 11h

I made this categorization planning on next guide for a specific use case that maybe I should have mentioned... There are so many... I try to keep focus!

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @aljaz 11h

my complaint is not that the list is not exhaustive but that the categorization is flawed at best and definitions unclear/wrong

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @supratic OP 11h

sure most of them also sell hardware, but you can easily run umbrel on AWS, not just on a raspi at home.

That's why self-hosted, I mean you can also run it on a home-server, no?

I understand from certain points does not make sense, but for the purpose I need it does. Maybe I should just have skip adding that table and avoid confusion!

54 sats \ 2 replies \ @nerd2ninja 12h

Blixt on Android.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @supratic OP 11h

Ah, true! Due to the purposes of this poll, I've excluded mobile nodes/wallets

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 11h

31 sats \ 3 replies \ @kristapsk 10h

I have multiple currently, one running RaspiBolt, another running Nakamochi.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @supratic OP 10h

Nakamochi

This is new to me! I could not find any reference online... do you have any links?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @kristapsk 10h

It's not yet officially released as a product, some final testing phases. They were present at BTCPrague consference this year. Website seems to be down currently, there's GitHub - https://github.com/nakamochi/. I'm doing some IT consulting and software development work for them recently.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @supratic OP 9h

Nice, thanks for sharing it, for a second I thought you were running a node on a sound system!

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @Turdinthepunchbowl 12h

Rather new to running my lightning node. I've had a BTC full node on Umbrel for awhile, but managing channels and inbound/outbound seemed complicated so I put it off. I finally decided to set it up and try, figured I will lose some sats and be inefficient but worth the learning experience and it's still a relatively small amount to me. The one thing I am less clear on is 'backup/recovery' for the lightning network, any advice or insight? Also, I know my answer de-anonymized my poll answer haha, but I don't mind.

121 sats \ 4 replies \ @aljaz 12h

its not super up2date any more (i haven't been adding much in the last year) but there is still quite a few useful resources on https://www.lightning-network.tech/

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Turdinthepunchbowl 11h

Thanks, will bookmark it for tomorrow before the NFL games start!

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 11h

Spend more time learning about LN than watching sports... Your failure to understand Bitcoin today, will cost you a fortune tomorrow.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Turdinthepunchbowl 11h

There's a response I was expecting from our dear Darth. I know it's a bit of a persona, and I have grown to appreciate it haha, but one can't spend 100% of their time on one thing and one thing only. What's a life without some element of enjoyment :). I can dedicate individual time to both.

121 sats \ 0 replies \ @aljaz 11h

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @supratic OP 11h

If you are planning using umbrel again, it should be really easy. Here are some links: