📄️ A Gentleman's Node
In days gone by, a Gentleman was a man of means, who did not work, but who lived on income from his investments and improved lands, and could devote himself to interesting hobbies. Many of these hobbies might intermingle with the man's principles, for example, his particular interest in the permanent abolition of economic oppression.
📄️ 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.