The Daniel ⚡️ and 84 sats @daniel - 2y
My home internet service went down about 10 hours ago and hasn’t been restored yet. They promised a time that already passed and haven’t given me a new estimate. As a result, my node is offline and unable to sync. Imagine traveling to another country and the only funds available to you are on your node at home, and it’s unreachable. This is one of those use cases for keeping some spending money on either custodial or non-custodial mobile Lightning wallets. Sometimes you have to make trade-offs for convenience.
entropy @entropy - 2y
Have you looked into a backup UPS?
What would that do when the internet is down? It’s not a power outage.
Dan @Dan - 2y
Your bank has several layers of redundant systems and power backups. Routing nodes should probably eventually all be designed similarly. A non-routing node is definitely a better fit for a spending wallet.
nobody @nobody - 2y
This is why I quit “self hosting” and moved my stuff to a DC. Solar flares still scare me though.
SamSamskies @SamSamskies - 2y
this is why i have 10 lightning wallets 😂
My b I didnt read it thoroughly skimmed . that blows bro im sorry
pukka @jared - 2y
Could nostr:npub1n0delesspp5qyp9sd6d4fql9g3s96k7g4yyvfmpdncpp542wvxzqksp427 be an option as well?
semisol @semisol - 2y
Some people use cellular as fallback
I self host some stuff at home, but most of my stuff that needs high uptime is in a DC
I have a TrueNAS running at home so I’m not dependent on internet bandwidth to access my stuff, but yeah, everything else is DC’d. I got tired of residential internet ruining my day.
Data center?
Yeah. My main reason is also bandwidth for choosing where to host stuff. I self host my node at home since I don’t trust anyone with my funds
Yeah. Have three VPSs and one Dedicated server. The dedi came with HDDs that were big, so I use it for the storage heavy stuff.
Understandable. I may be able to do backup internet with T-Mobile eventually when my house is done. I might be willing to bring certain low bandwidth but sensitive things home then.
I’m speaking of Lightning specifically because as a second layer it is dependent on a node with a constant internet connection to work. If you have access to on-chain funds, you can use them to make a payment or to fund a new Lightning wallet, but you’d still have to wait for the transaction to confirm.
I don’t have a way to do that with my setup.
Same
1767e - 2y
Starlink?
4f4f8 - 2y
@blockstream satellite fixes this. It’s not that hard to set up and there’s even a chance you have most of the required equipment sitting disused on your home.
I should be clear: this is for getting blockchain data to feed your node. Sending your 250 byte transaction without internet was fixed years ago…I haven’t done this in a long time but there may still be an sms relay for bitcoin transactions. It takes two sms texts to send a tx.
