baseload on Nostr: Running a LN node is not for everybody unfortunately (yet). Even if Umbrel and the ...
Running a LN node is not for everybody unfortunately (yet). Even if Umbrel and the likes make it look like it’s easy peasy. TLDR: no it’s not.
What you did will likely force close of all your channels and in the process you will likely lose sats if your channels were unbalanced at the time. Beware out there, we need more education on Risks associated with LN nodes.
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