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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @aftermath OP 12 Dec 2023 \ parent \ on: AcceptLND - Channel requests management tool for LND bitcoin

Thanks!

Yes, alias and color would be trivial to add because they are in the GetNodeInfo RPC method response. I didn't add them because I thought they had no value and could be easily changed, do you think they should be added?

Regarding min_node_age, that kind of information is not provided by the LND RPC but can be obtained by checking that the node's oldest channel is at least 103,680 blocks old (not complex neither).

There is a worth mentioning workaround that requires no changes and uses the node.channels.block_height field. For example:

policies:
  -
    request:
      channel_capacity:
        min: 3_000_000
    node:
      hybrid: true
      channels:
        block_height:
          operation: range
          min: 103_680 # 720 days * 144 blocks per day

However, that would be true only if the oldest and newest channels were created 103,680 blocks from each other.

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @xz 12 Dec 2023 freebie

I was thinking blocktime might be more helpful, and I guess oldest channel would validate when the node was known on network, so that'd be right.

I think the oldest channel might be more helpful to most users. I was thinking this as a selection criteria because it may be less likely with nodes having reputation from age, similarly to how it's used on some node ranking.

Guess color or alias would not be so useful, unless some edge case where maybe there could be secret criteria to open channels, or if users use implementation or protocol in it [lnd] [cln] [tor] ..

I'd like to run this, thinking if I can get it to start up as systemd / systemctl service. Would be good this way for integrating install guides into raspibolt, minibolt.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @aftermath OP 12 Dec 2023

I agree it would be useful to have that field, I'll add it in the next release.

Running it with systemd is pretty straightforward, simply download the binary or compile it yourself (give it execution permissions) and create the following service with sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/acceptlnd.service

[Unit]
Description=AcceptLND
Wants=network.target
Wants=lnd.service

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/home/<user>
Type=simple
ExecStart=/home/<user>/acceptlnd
User=<user>
Restart=always
RestartSec=60
KillMode=process

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

And then sudo systemctl enable acceptlnd and sudo systemctl start acceptlnd.

Doing a guide for Minibolt and Raspibolt is a great idea, I'll open an issue on their repositories to see if they are ok with it.

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @xz 13 Dec 2023

Thanks for that. Upgraded go and got the service running.