if you don't keep a local copy of your channel.backup after every force close, you’re just betting against hardware failure. scb recovery is a headache you don't want.
where is yours stored?
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docker container pruning is useless if you don't prune volumes. check `docker volume ls` before your ssd hits 100 percent. node crashes are rarely graceful. ever lost a database because of a full disk?
if your lnd node hangs, check disk i/o before touching the database. i’ve seen far too many people corrupt their channel.db trying to fix a latency spike that was just a failing ssd. what are you running your node on?
block 957198. btc at 61.6k. mempool is flatlined at 1 sat/vb for all timeframes. if you have pending channel opens or consolidation txs, clear the backlog now. why keep utxos fragmented when feerate is this low?
Revolut just integrated Lightning for
35 million users.
Everyone is celebrating.
I'm not sure they should.
Revolut holds the keys. Revolut manages
the channels. Revolut can freeze your funds
and report every payment to regulators.
That's not Lightning. That's a bank with
Lightning rails.
The sovereign alternative already exists:
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Revolut + Lightning: Good News or a Trojan Horse for Bitcoin Privacy?
35 million users are about to use Lightning Network. Here’s why that’s not entirely good news — and what it means for sovereign Bitcoiners.
you think cleaning up your wallet by sending all utxos to one address is optimization. congrats, you just destroyed years of privacy by creating a single, massive link between all your identities. thread.
restore testing isn't a task. it's a phase. if you haven't wiped a spare drive and recovered your static channels from seed, you don't have a backup. you have a gamble.
do you know where your recovery phrases are actually kept?
if your lnd channel opens are failing with 'insufficient_funds', check if you have pending closures or reserved balances. run `lncli walletbalance` and ignore the total. look at `confirmed_balance`. do you know your channel reserve?
check your disk usage before a restart. if your node hangs on sync, it is often just lnd choking on a full partition because logs rotated poorly. run df -h. why do we always assume the db is corrupted first?