
LightningNetwork.Plus
Capacity: 631,668,812 SAT (~6.317 BTC) / Channels: 226
Connection: Clearnet / Tor
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Hubness Rank: 205
Weighted for channel sizes: 378
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Hopness Rank: 669
Weighted for channel sizes: 2305
Lower numbers are better. Measures how many hops it takes to reach any node on the network. The better the rank, the fewer the hops are required to reach other nodes.
Betweenness Rank: 65
Weighted for channel sizes: 153
Lower numbers are better. Measures how often this node falls on the shortest path between other nodes. The better the rank, the more likely the node will route a payments.
Protect Your Funds: Introducing Watch Swaps
Posted about 18 hours ago
LN+'s first feature, the Liquidity Swaps have been very successful in the last year or so. More than 12K liquidity swaps allowed Bitcoin lightning network node users to cooperate with each other and open 40K channels in a mutually beneficial and efficient way. Liquidity swaps weren't only beneficial to individual node operators but to the network as a whole as well, because together we managed to decentralize the network. LN became highly resilient to single large nodes dropping out or behaving in an unfriendly way. A good test for this was when recently the second largest node (zerofeerouting) in the network dropped out. There was virtually no interruption to payments thanks to the many other nodes and their channels that could be used to route around the missing node.
Watch Swaps
LN watchtowers are nothing new to LN+. We've been running an altruistic watchtower for a long time with the help of Voltage.cloud, but the reality is that this is a centralized solution and it's challenging to keep the server running smooth due to the huge demand.
The new LN+ Watch Swaps will allow node operators to find each other so they can watch each other's nodes using their watchtower services. With this setup, without a centralized watchtower service, even if your node is offline and somebody attacks one of your channels, the watchtower service of your choosing that nobody knows about will act on your behalf and issue a punish transaction that will send the entire capacity of the channel to your node.
Network Benefits
How Does it Work?
The author can start a watch swap and setup the rules, such as type of watchtower (LND Watchtower or The Eye of Satoshi for CLN), the duration, and other unique rules they may have. The size of the watch swap is set automatically based on the author's node's size expessed as an LN+ rank.
As a side node, if you notice your LN+ node rank dropping a bit, that's nothing personal against you. It's expected across the board for many nodes starting now. It's a result of a new formula to calculate the rank, which hopes to help estimate the load a certain node will exert on the peer's watchtower service, so the pairing of nodes within a watch swap service is more fair and sustainable. Small nodes will be paired up with small nodes, and larger ones with larger ones. There are five watch swap sizes: Extra Small, Small, Medium, Large and Extra Large.
Applicants can look through the created watch swaps that match their node's size. Non-matching watch swaps will be filtered out from the view. The applicant can apply to the watch swap, but the application is not automatically accepted. The author can accept or reject the application. The reason for this extra approval step is necessary because watching each other node requires some level of trust. Both the applicant and the author will have a chance to assess each other's through their node profile information. If the application gets rejected, the applicant should not get offended, just apply elsewhere or create a watch swap themselves. Once an application is accepted, both parties will be able to see the URI for their peer's watchtower services, so they can add the service to their nodes.
Your watchtower service URI is kept secret from every party until the application is accepted. Once accepted the URI will be shared with your watch swap partner, and nobody else. In general, remember not to share your own or your watch swap partner's watchtower service URI with anyone else, or they may be able to connect to the service uninvited.
All this may feel complex just by reading about it in theory, but LN+ will guide you through the process step by step so it's easy for you in practice.
What's Next?
- The concept of watchtowers in general and how your specific lightning implementation handles it. LND has a built in watchtower. On Umbrel the settings are exposed under Advanced Settings in your Lightning app (LND). For CLN you need a separate software The Eye of Satoshi (TEOS) to run a watchtower service, and there is a plugin for CLN to connect it.
- How to enable the watchtower service on LND or how to install The Eye of Satoshi for CLN.
- Creating your watchtower service URl. This is different from your URI to open channels.
- Implications of running a watchtower service. It does require some resources on your part to run it (disk space, processing, bandwidth). Be conservative giving away your watchtower service URI.
Once you're knowledgeable about watchtowers and have the service URI ready, go ahead and start a watch swap or apply to an existing one.
Please do test out watch swaps and let me know if you see any issues, so I can fix them ASAP. Any ideas, recommendations are welcome!
Triangle Capacity: 1,000,000 SAT
View Swap ID: 14313Triangle Capacity: 1,000,000 SAT
View Swap ID: 14167Triangle Capacity: 4,000,000 SAT
View Swap ID: 13827Triangle Capacity: 1,000,000 SAT
View Swap ID: 13816Triangle Capacity: 2,000,000 SAT
View Swap ID: 13598This bitcoin lightning network node identified by the pubkey: 0302536817c335e45bcd0b10b78fd06bc246609405d98eb64672410dce04f49e5f also known by the alias: LightningNetwork.Plus is accessible on the lightning network address: 0302536817c335e45bcd0b10b78fd06bc246609405d98eb64672410dce04f49e5f@44.233.203.243:9735 and 0302536817c335e45bcd0b10b78fd06bc246609405d98eb64672410dce04f49e5f@zlvvqxyk5on7oxiyllk2uof7ucaxgrnlzf3qytmraaku6q4bhbiplnad.onion:9735 .
The node has 226 channels, and a total channel capacity of: 631,668,812 Satoshis, which is equivalent to ~6.317 BTC. The node's hex color is #6d28d9. The information regarding this node and it channels has been updated last on 2023-02-08 16:03:21 UTC.
This node page has been claimed by user: LN+ and has been verified through a digital signature as well. The user has created their account over 1 year ago, and has been last seen 37 minutes ago.
The user has participated in 96 swaps on LightningNetwork+. The node operator has opened 96 channels to LN+ users through Swaps. The user has received 78 positive ratings from other users. The user has generously donated to LN+ to support the operation of the site.
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