Happy Independence Day everyone! For Americans, remember why our liberty was won, & how costly was the fight. For the rest of the world remember that Independence from financial oppression isn't a uniquely American opportunity, & Bitcoin will achieve what was begun so long ago! Don't forget that running a Lightning Node is a good step toward bringing Freedom to finances. And opening a channel to RecklessApotheosis gets you your opening fees refunded and 0 routing fees for 30 days!
RecklessApotheosis is down for maintenance, and has been for the past 5 hours, an unexpected issue cropped up from postgresql and we are debugging it.
OK, RecklessApotheosis is going down again briefly (hopefully) for a planned networking change, just have to migrate the port forwards and it should be back up.
So RecklessApotheosis is currently offline as both power and internet are out right now. In addition, there is a risk of a moderate Tsunami in 4 hours, so we'll see how that goes!
Bitcoin Is For Everyone was a tremendous success and thanks to @ThisIsMarcG Seedsigner had a spectacular booth, and we had a blast volunteering for part of the day demonstrating 2/3 multisig fully self custodial testnet transactions to the masses!
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Had the incredible opportunity to travel West Texas with these amazing innovators in the Bitcoin Space, and discussing my passion projects of Bitcoin Education, Mining Decentralization, and Lightning adoption with them. Really looking forward to seeing the Proof-of-work that emerges from this week's efforts!
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Driving to Vancouver, Canada where I'll be speaking on a panel about teaching Bitcoin to high schoolers. Stopped for breakfast in the middle of nowhere literally at a restaurant called The Rusty Tractor and across from the bar with country music playing is an otherwise unassuming ATM with one notable difference. Gradually, then suddenly, we will get there! First the ATM, then the cashier, then everywhere! Hope to see you in Vancouver for the MiPrimer Unconference and Learning Bitcoin Conference!
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The My First Bitcoin Conference Unconference here in Vancouver, BC is so awesome! I enjoyed my panel opening the event! This is going to be a great weekend!
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Well, RecklessApotheosis is down and may be for a while, I am troubleshooting now, but I can't pinpoint yet what's wrong other than I believe it's a hardware issue.
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Hello all. So the troubleshooting with the server ended up finding a dead backplane on the server. I purchased a replacement server, but they're heavy and ship slowly. It is scheduled to arrive on September 4th, and I hope to have it set up and the VMs migrated by the 5th. So far we've been fortunate to only have had a single FC, if you can all be patient, I may be able to get the node back up with only 1 closure! Thank you all for your patience and well wishes. Noderunning is definitely Reckless, and you never know what's going to go wrong next! I'm going to try my hand at setting up live migration on the VM when I get the cluster recovered, so the node can survive not only hard drive failures, but also server failures in the future.
After 6 days of downtime and only 2 FCs, RecklessApotheosis is back up and in the game! It'll take a while to sync blocks and finish starting but we are back in business! Thank you all for your patience! The server will probably go down a couple more times tomorrow as I clean up some hardware stuff but I'll make sure there are no pending forwards then.
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