We have all benefited from those articles. I have read many of you articles throughout the years. thx. There are perils with node running. 

JoeT

Yep, exactly that.
And for cases like this, as OP, I wrote those several guides about running nodes, warning the noobs, that this is a serious task, not a fancy facebook to open channels with friends...

bitcoin

How i lost 1 bitcoin trying to open channels in the bitcoin lighting network. 

Yep, exactly that.
And for cases like this, as OP, I wrote those several guides about running nodes, warning the noobs, that this is a serious task, not a fancy facebook to open channels with friends...

- https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/recommendations-for-ln-users
- https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/lightning-node-maintenance
- https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/managing-lightning-node-liquidity
- https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/private-lightning-nodes
- https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/lightning-routing-fees-experiment

But many people ignored my advice...
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