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Running a ⚡lightning node often feels like caring for a Tamagotchi!

What tools make the life of a ⚡lightning node operator simpler? What are you using? Here is our opinionated incomplete list: 1. Tunnelsats (VPN service for hybrid Clearnet/Tor) 2. LNDg (fee and rebalance management) 3. rebalance-lnd (script for rebalancing) 4. Network UPS Tools (power management) 5. Nextcloud (to store static channel backups) 6. Amboss (LN explorer, liquidity/channel market) 7. Thunderhub (general node management) 8. Mempool (block explorer, onchain fee overview) 9. charge-lnd (script for fee policies) 10. ln-charts (overview of earnings/costs) 11. Balance of Satoshis (dual funded channels) 12. LNnodeinsight (LN explorer, channel simulator) 13. LN+ (LN explorer, find channel peers) Please 👉 share and 👇 comment! Thank you!

What do you fear most as ⚡lightning node operator??? 1. getting doxed or hacked 2. power outages 3. hardware failures 4. yourself being dumb 5. Force closures 6. Messing around with static channel backup or channel.db ...so many variables! Curious about your experiences! 👉 share and 👇 comments welcome!

The flow moment as ⚡ lightning node operator: observing forwards with alternating directionality on a channel pair! ☯️

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