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Bolt 12 & LND is controlled by the WEF loving Lightning Labs (Liz Stark).

Of yeah, there was a comment in one the 402 Payment Required guides on YouTube to this effect. Is lnd still on the shit list? I'm thinking of closing my lnd node. It's one of the last things that I have in Umbrel (and served by a pruned node and administered by Thunderhub.) If I shut that down, I can get rid of Umbrel. Umbrel has been okay but other stuff on the server is hindered by it because it monopolises nginx. I prefer to manage containers myself with Portainer and I've pushed bitcoin-core (unpruned) onto another server.

Not sure, I don't really keep up. There's definitely a connection to the WEF, I just didn't realise they were behind LND. I've been unimpressed by the forced channel closures & they're reluctance to incorporate Bolt 12 is a concern. My umbrel is needing to be decommissioned & I'll firing up a CLN Node on Start9 I think. I need to order a 2TB SSD because 1TB doesn't really cut it anymore.

I think that I'll go the CLN route too. It's disappointing that the channels can't be really carried over from the retiring node. A fresh start it is. I've got an old NUC with a weak processor (Celeron N3060) with a 1TB SSD and 8GB. I didn't want to junk this, or upgrade it, so I've tasked it solely with running the bitcoin-core daemon. It could chug along for another 3 years yet and do it comfortably. Other stuff can go on the more-powerful node. electrs, CLN, mempool can go there and make RPCs to the bitcoin-core daemon. And it'll leave me with space for Immich, Nextcloud, Transmission-OpenVPN, Pi-hole, Plex, etc.

Sounds like a good plan. I've got 2 Nucs with decent specs but 1 is a little more decent than the other. Might use the good one for the Bitcoin stuff. I still need that 2TB SSD though - it might have to wait until next week.