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The First Free Routing Lightning Node in Africa

1231 sats \ 22 comments \ @FreeRoutingAf 10 Aug 2022 bitcoin

We are supper excited to announce our FREE lightning payment routing node for Africa!

Inspired by Zero Fee Routing and sponsored by Voltage, we route lightning payments with zero fees. We do this because we want to help increase the adoption of Bitcoin in Africa in every possible way, hopefully, this helps.

Our node Alias is AfricaFreeRouting

You can view our node starts on Amboss here: bit.ly/AFRouting Open a channel with us: 020b00aaae4c1904ca0a773aaea9064717eb12a2096abec2370335ec19e368eeb9@f6xpd6m6bzrvgynmttabntsndfr4gqvkxxbjyxp7wjin2jffqkrograd.onion:9735

Bitcoin must win in Africa!

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122 sats \ 2 replies \ @higuyslol 10 Aug 2022

Can you explain how this helps?

It looks like you just named a channel something nice then asked for inbound liq.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @FreeRoutingAf OP 11 Aug 2022

Only about 0.12% of nodes in the network are hosted in Africa.

That's pretty low considering there's a high Bitcoin adoption rate in Africa.

Hosting more lightning nodes in Africa will help route lightning payments within the continent even faster.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @based 11 Aug 2022

Not over Tor it doesn't.

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @om 10 Aug 2022

Doesn't matter where you are, you're hidden behind Tor. The signal does a couple of jumps around the globe anyway before it reaches you.

3 sats \ 0 replies \ @FreeRoutingAf OP 10 Aug 2022

Yes.. we're working on hosting it in Africa to gain visibility.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @BTC_LN 12 Aug 2022

The Amboss link and the provided address are two different nodes:

Amboss linked address: https://lightningnetwork.plus/nodes/02ddb472c8edf0624dec5544507b705aae67d42a6cc2db133ba7e843fd5ce90135

Other address: https://lightningnetwork.plus/nodes/020b00aaae4c1904ca0a773aaea9064717eb12a2096abec2370335ec19e368eeb9

You may want to edit your post if you still can...

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @FreeRoutingAf OP 12 Aug 2022

Thank you very much @BTC_LN

Unfortunately, I am not allowed to edit.

This is the correct onion: 02ddb472c8edf0624dec5544507b705aae67d42a6cc2db133ba7e843fd5ce90135@gyydo2x6ybcw2clpjxcu7i3fvbxbb7yd6nzdojbslu22xseflzwqd4id.onion:9735

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @ken 10 Aug 2022

I bless the Lightning down in Africa

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @FreeRoutingAf OP 10 Aug 2022 freebie

Yes! ✊🏾

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @1sats 11 Aug 2022

It takes some effort to keep channels balanced. I doubt zero fee will do any good to your channels as liquidity would be all stuck on one side.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @theKOMOTION 11 Aug 2022

BITCOIN MUST WIN IN AFRICA!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @xz 11 Aug 2022

awesome, good luck routing!

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @alvaraaltopelti 10 Aug 2022

Why free though? I thought having a small, but adequate fee makes LN spam resistant.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @FreeRoutingAf OP 10 Aug 2022

Having a zero fee doesn't spam the network.

Like I said, we got our inspiration from Zero fee routing.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @derekross 10 Aug 2022

When I get some more dry powder I'll open a channel. I keep my channels mostly all 0/0 fees as well.