Thanks for putting in the work. I appreciate SN providing seemingly endless resources for learning. 

I'm stubborn and patient. Half a year of work to accomplish something doesn't even move the needle for me. I've put in far more time for way less. 

Aardvark

lightning

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anna

Learning is a long curve.
I am not saying that you should not do it or you will never be able to run properly a LN node.
What am I trying to say is that for running properly a LN node, require time, patience, a lot of reading and testing and... some capital and hardware.

It took me 3 years, almost 4 (2018-2022) to really understand how all the mechanisms and tools for LN are working, testing all days all available solutions. btw... Saylor was barely discovering Bitcoin when i was already testing LN nodes...

[And that's why I wrote all those guides](https://darth-coin.github.io/nodes/nodes.html), based on my experiments and learning so you and other noobs will read them and not have to take 3-4 years, but maybe 4-5 months until you will reach that level when you could say "ok I know what am I doing with this LN node, I know how to manage it."