image After a bit of a false start, Nodelou🐈 has been running very stable (now on clustered PostgreSQL database with synchronous replication), but is still in need of fresh inbound liquidity as currently my outbound liquidity ratio is quite unbalanced. I have some fat channels opened to sinks and will be gradually dropping fees over the next week or so until things start to flow – so there's a good opportunity for you to earn some decent routing fees too. Plus, I will keysend back the channel open fees for the first 21 inbound channels to help get things moving. Happy to be be routing again, LFG 🚀 #noderunners #nodestrich #lightning #nodestr #ln #lightningnetwork View quoted note →

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So I don't really get all the lingo yet. I have some amount of sats in my Albyhub, that is associated with this npub. If I had a different npub that I wanted to associate with some of those sats, could I use them to open a channel to your node?
I keep a 5M minimum channel size to reduce the amount of channel and database management on my node. Before I started rebuilding there were over 140 channels, which was a bit too many to effectively manage well. I'd rather maintain fewer but larger channels, which also allows for larger payments to pass through. ⚡️
One year of nodeiversary of #Nodelou🐈 (v2.0) 🎉 Just over a year ago, Nodelou🐈 suffered a catastrophic hardware failure just shy of our three-year nodeiversary. We had no choice but to close all channels and rebuild the node completely. View quoted note → Today marks ONE YEAR on since block 870962 ushered in Nodelou🐈 v2.0 and the first ten channels were opened on the new hardware!! 
 With a megaton of help from other node runners in the community, we rebuilt Nodelou🐈 from the ground up on a baremetal server, with a fresh LND database running on clustered PostgreSQL database and synchronous replication for redundancy and ultimate reliability. View quoted note → As of today, Nodelou currently has 81 public channels, with a total routing capacity of 1,366,511,471 sats. In the past 365 days, with the help of some amazing channel peers, Nodelou🐈 has routed over 131,000 transactions on the #LightningNetwork, totaling nearly 454 BTC!!! Last 365d: – Transactions: 131241 – Total forwarded: 43384899953 sats (433.84899953 BTC) What began as a hobby project on my humble RaspberryPi, slowly turned into an obsession, and eventually a full-time occupation. It is mind-blowing that literally anyone can spin up a node and participate in the future of global finance. #noderunners #nodestrich ⚡Routing since block 706492⚡