EnduraUmb-I's Posts

Closing small channels

Posted 16 days ago

Hi
I closed already channels <1MSAT. 
10 channels all with low traffic were closed in total. Reason: Promised to family to reduce when we hit 80k USD/BTC.
Rest I will keep open until retirement :)

Another update of bitcoind and lnd

Posted 20 days ago

Today bitcoind and lnd was brought up to newest supported versions - node is getting back online right now.

Next Upgrade

Posted about 2 months ago

Updated underlying OS to Ubuntu 24 LTS. Had some issues after doing this :( but now everything should be up and running again.

Update Bitcoind and OS plus fix hardware problem (cooling).

Posted 2 months ago

today some maintenance will be back soon.

Update to latest versions

Posted 4 months ago

updates done - node up and running again.

Updates done

Posted 7 months ago

Again updates to latest kernel bitcoin and lnd versions
Everything running stable since month now and no forced closes seen for a while. Seems also the selction of stable channel partners is now paying off.

Update to latest linux kernel und docker

Posted 10 months ago

Update to latest linux kernel und docker - nothing else to add.

bitcoind now on V26

Posted 10 months ago

Title is selfexplaining - bitcoind of my node upgraded to version 26.
Releasenotes: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/release-notes/release-notes-26.0.md


update to LND 0.17.3 and latest linux kernel

Posted 12 months ago

see subject - update was without any issues

(Temporarily) Disabled TOR as accepted connection in settings here

Posted 12 months ago

Hi,

was jsut again wondering why so many channels (10%) are offline on my node. Internet and node seems to work - only saw high CPU on TOR processes. Then checked all of the offline channelpartners via LNRouter. All of them were pure TOR nodes and all were showing instable connections (more than 50&% offline).
==> I decided to disable TOR in LN+ settings at least temporarly as it is not the first time TOR causing issues :(

thanks for your understanding

Next goals for this node

Posted 12 months ago

- Increase capacity to 2BTC (outgoing min. 1BTC)
- Fokus on clearnet nodes
- Avoid unstable node connections
- Minimum Channelsize 3MSAT - I might replace small channels next year

Again several (4) forced closed (automatically) in a short timeframe

Posted about 1 year ago

I had again 4 automatic forced closures - For some the reason might be instable channel partner for some I do not see any reason. The node had no issues for several weeks before. 
It is really frustrating and expensive (several hundred dollars closing costs :() - if someone has a good source of measures to avoid forced closures or at least to identify the root cause I would be happy.
My node is pretty stable - currently no network issues. Performance should be fine as well. I only upgraded to lnd 17.2 but according to release notes this should help not make the situation worse. 
Lightning Network Node
EnduraUmb-I
Capacity: 163,924,788 SAT
Channels: 55