📄️ A Gentleman's Node
Let's travel back to the time of yore, when the concept of a "Gentleman" was synonymous with honor, dignity, and a certain detachment from the mundane concerns of the working classes.
📄️ A Clearnet IP For Your Node
This application requires very fast, reliable, low latency connections
📄️ Do These Things To Enhance Reliability
A Gentleman is always reliable, and that also goes for his node. If you're going to run a routing node, you need to be running 24/7/365. Ideally, your downtime should be measured in minutes per year, not hours per year!
📄️ Alarms and Connectivity Checks
Now, young gentleman, don't think that your time as a routing node operator will be spent in complete leisure!
📄️ What You Need To Know About Channel Closures
The biggest source of uncertainty, and sometimes expense, for node runners, are channel closures.
📄️ A Death Of A Routing Node
On the frigid evening of Wednesday, January 31st, 2024, as a weak winter sun was setting over Central Europe's data centers, something went very, very wrong for the node known by the alias XMRK.