Megalith LSP and Megalith Small Channels have returned to normal networking performance. Alby Pro Cloud nodes should all be automatically re-connected. (One reason we recommend Alby Pro Cloud.) If you are self-hosting your node, and find that your channel with Megalith LSP or Megalith Small Channels is "inactive", please try restarting your underlying node. Thanks.

Not really "down" -- actually many users might not notice an issue. Our networking is "degraded" however so we wanted to post this out of an abundance of caution. Should likely be fixed in the next few hours.

Here is a doc for using Rizful NWC with Primal... but you can use other NWC back-ends like Alby, also... https://docs.megalithic.me/using-rizful/use-primal/

Lightning node in the cloud! https://rizful.com/

The LSP that is available to Rizful.com nodes has the same pricing as Megalith LSP. Its's a different node, but we run it with the same standards as Megalith LSP.

Also regarding "price comparisons" between LSPs, this is quite tricky. Some LSPs might have better routing ability (fewer failed payments) than others...

Thanks, first of all, I want to point out that Zeus is doing critical work in the BTC community, and if you use Zeus, you should support their mission. One way you can do that is by getting channels from Zeus LSP.

Also, on a technical level, my understanding is that only the Zeus LSP can provide "JiT" (just in time) channels to Zeus wallets... I believe no other LSPs support their exact API.

However, as long as your node has the ability to "connect" to other nodes, then there are other LSPs from whom you could get an inbound channel. We recently set up this page where you can do just this.... https://megalithic.me/get_a_channel

Thanks for posting this, we just added one more step to the directions. We tested making invoices and it seems to work great!

Thanks, good call

Yakihonne takes an NWC string. Definitely there is no cut going to Apple.

Awesome guide, thanks for this! We also have a new guide which focuses on starting your first Lightning Node and getting an NWC code to send & receive zaps: https://rizful.com/get_zaps_with_your_own_lightning_node

... As well as another which focuses on getting fully set-up on Nostr... https://rizful.com/get_on_nostr_today

There is also something that is not shown in this table, which is -- how reliable are payments using these LSPs? That's something that's also pretty difficult to measure.. you'd have to set up a channel with all of these, then make 20+ payments too and from various wallets... and also, it's a moving target, because they might all work one minute, and then five minutes later, all fail.

Maybe needless to say, our #1 priority with Megalith LSP and Rizful LSP is to be sure that payments don't fail.

Nice table. BTW Rizful and Megalith LSP use the exact same code to determine opening fees. It's dependent on the prevailing chain fees. So you saw 19,878 and 20,282, which makes sense, probably there was a few minutes delay between these two prices, that shows the difference.... but if you got the prices from Rizful and Megalith LSP at the exact same moment, they should be the same...;)

Also. Wanted to note. Megalith LSP and Rizful both guarantee a 3 month duration, unless the user goes offline for more than 30 days..... but also, possibly different from other LSPs, that duration is EXTENDED INDEFINITELY if you actually USE the channel -- i.e. you send sats or someone else sends sats. If your node stays online (which it will perfectly if you use a cloud service like Rizful or Alby Hub), and if you send or receive sats at least once or twice per month, you should see that your channel NEVER closes.

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Yes, thanks, regarding "Also please add a notification (by email or nostr) for those nodes that will go "dormant" or offline so users will be alerted." -- this is already done. You should get an email when and if your node sleeps.

Gracias

Thanks. Yeah. We are SUPER eager to deploy Testnet4 on Rizful. Should be early in 2025. See our description of how we think it can be used in education here: https://rizful.com/#the-case-for-educational-lightning-software