C-Otto 🔸
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I took the 10% pledge https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/pledge
I'm pretty confident ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de will receive a hardware upgrade soon, thanks to a sponsor I'll name once it is official. The nostr relay (wss://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/nostr) will also benefit from this!
~75 TByte HDD disk space
several TByte SSD disk space (for caching)
192 GByte RAM (maybe 256 GByte, we'll see!)
at least 20 GBit/sec internet connectivity
7 years of warranty with on-site support
As before, the server will be hosted at RWTH Aachen University (sponsoring power, cooling, network).
This happened again, twice. I requested 2 sat/vByte, next block is at around 3-4 sat/vByte. Both peers wanted to pay 30 sat/vByte instead. Their loss...
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I'm lucky to have several large (~1 BTC and more) channels and enough inbound liquidity on my #LightningNetwork node. Because of this, I also see large forward requests. Some succeed, some fail.
However, it's always saddening when my node has to reject a 0.9 BTC forward request with lots of sats attached as fees I could claim. I simply don't have that much liquidity.
I wonder how this wrks out for other node operators - Alex Bosworth with his yalls nodes as an example.
It'd be nice for LSPs/wallets to split larger payments (MPP), possibly with #PickhardtPayments. That way, my node could at least serve a (large?) fraction of the total amount. But, who knows, maybe those 0.9 BTC in my example above are just 1% of the total amount :)
Lots of activity in the #LightningNetwork. It's hard to keep up, I'm rebalancing/fixing more than usual. I kinda need more sats, though :/
PSA: Check your #LightningNetwork node's fee settings. I just requested a channel close with 1 sat/vByte. The mempool is empty. My peer, who has to pay the fees, wanted to pay 18 sat/vByte.
How can I add content to my nostr relay? So far it only provides posts that I created myself, as my clients are connected to my node. How can I connect my relay to another relay, or forward missing data from my clients?
There might be a new relay at wss://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/nostr adding 20 GBit/sec to the network. I'll reconfigure, restart and migrate the relay until things are settled, but please feel free to give it a try!
Did any of you actually use LN with Binance or route to/from their node?
I'd like to provide a public Nostr relay on ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de, which currently has 20 GBit/sec of network connectivity, in addition to lots of CPU and disk space.
I have a strong preference for self-contained implementations making use of some strongly typed language (Go, Rust, Java, ...), and I'd be happy to provide some PostgreSQL backend. Could you recommend a mature implementation that is fit for the purpose?
I'm aware of https://nostr.how/en/relay-implementations, but I'd prefer some guidelines and hear from your experiences.
First post. 🥳