100 sats \ 3 replies \ @millo 4 Nov 2022 \ on: Daily discussion thread
I have been playing for some days with a Lite Lightning node on Voltage, opened some channels but I don't get any traffic even setting 1 sat outgoing fee.
Until now I am losing my money, opening and closing channels.
Getting started with Lightning is hard and the current user experience doesn't make it any easier for you. I'm currently working on https://cyberhornet.network to bring a whole new experience to running a Lightning node.
In the meantime though, I'd recommend having a look at https://lightningnetwork.plus/swaps to swap channel openings, this will give you inbound and outbound liquidity between other nodes so that payment routes can start flowing through.
In general, it's best not to close channels. Think of the money spent opening/closing so far as a learning investment. I'm sure you've learned a bunch by getting your hands dirty that will serve you well moving forward.
Keep stacking friend!
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How are you liking Voltage? I was toying around with it myself about a week back but I started working on other BTC projects & haven't got back to it.
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It's not perfect but it is clean and simple.
You have ThunderHub console to manage your LND node.
It does not come with BOS or LITD installed so you have to install on your server and set up as remote node.
Bu update to 0.15.4 (because of the bug) was superfast and a matter of just clicking the "Update" button.
Security seems good as well.
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