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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 17 May 2022 \ on: Daily discussion thread
We need reliable WatchTowers for LN nodes. There's a list of "altruistic" nodes that offer WT but I tried 3-4 of them and after not even a week are not reachable anymore.
The failure of connecting to a WT, makes LND to go crazy with loaded memory and in the end just stop. You have to disable WT and restart LND.
We have some options:
  • make a better solution for WT
  • people that promote they "offer" WT to do it ONLY if they really do it not just for the sake of saying it.
  • make a paid service on which we can rely 100% on it
Any other idea?
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @glix 17 May 2022
I really like the idea of paying for WTs but it shouldn't be very expensive for users to do so. The pricing should be very minimal like 5-10 sats/channel/month or something. There should be work on this on the protocol level itself making sure we don't bloat it more than necessary. Watch towers should be preferably hosted on-premise and in data-centers that have a good up time because of having excellent connectivity and power backups.
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