Happy #SatStackerSunday! RecklessApotheosis lost 2 channels this week and only gained 1. It was a slow week, especially compared with DeltaGap, only routing 573 transactions this week worth 72m sats. Slow weeks are good weeks to pick up new reading material and sharpen your perspecitve! This week we got the awesome SoftWar thesis by Jason Lowery! Remember, you can always open up a channel to #RecklessApotheosis and we'll refund the first 300 sats of your opening fees and give you 0/0 routing fees for 30 days! Stay reckless and happy routing!

Sorry for the downtime folks. I was working on installing a light fixture and flipped the node breaker looking for the light one, I powered it back up, logged in, and thought I'd unlocked the lnd, but I didn't. It's unlocked now, but it was offline while I was working on the light. Hopefully it didn't cost RecklessApotheosis any Force closures, at least the light looks good!

✨ channel with RecklessApotheosis was reactivated after 1H 26m

Happy #SatStackerSunday and for those that celebrate, happy Resurrection Sunday! We were busy last weekend, but in the past 2 weeks RecklessApotheosis lost 1 channel and gained 2. It was another slower week, routing 867 transactions this week worth 81m sats. We have some on chain funds that settled, so feel free to approach us for a dual-funded open! And remember, you can always open up a channel to #RecklessApotheosis and we'll refund the first 300 sats of your opening fees and give you 0/0 routing fees for 30 days! Stay reckless and happy routing!

Rebooting RecklessApotheosis to perform a software update, hang tight ⚡️ !

And we're back!

🟢 Your node RecklessApotheosis has had a change in health check status and is currently ONLINE at 10:09:02 PM 2023-04-12 UTC

Happy #SatStackerSunday! We finally had a great routing week again, RecklessApotheosis lost 2 channels but gained 7! So it should come as no surprise that we finally routed over 100m sats (across over 700 transactions) for the first time in ages! Remember, you can always open up a channel to #RecklessApotheosis and we'll refund the first 300 sats of your opening fees and give you 0/0 routing fees for 30 days! Stay reckless and happy routing!

OK, finally going to get a domain for the node, what does the community consensus think?

And with that last channel open we made it to within 2022 sats of having the perfect node size!!! I think it'd be fun to offer a bounty for when we get back to our 100th channel! Maybe 1k sats sent to channel #100?

Happy #SatStackerSunday! We had another great routing week: RecklessApotheosis lost 2 channels but gained 6, including our first one initiated entirely on nostr! Another healthy routing week of 105m sats (across over 945 transactions) getting close to 1k tx per week! We're preparing for the launch of our after school Bitcoin Diploma workshop and the Bitcoin Conference in Miami, we'll post more updates on each as they get closer! Remember, you can always open up a channel to #RecklessApotheosis and we'll refund the first 300 sats of your opening fees and give you 0/0 routing fees for 30 days! Stay reckless and happy routing!

✨ channel with RecklessApotheosis was reactivated after 1H 47m

Sorry folks, had downtime last night and am investigating the cause.

New Batch Opens incoming for RecklessApotheosis to further improve our routing liquidity with the fewest hops possible!

⏳ Opening new 5,000,000 channel to lnbits.com 022bd0aa893db4ac890e457cca8c83f112518d6941bf9153dab4bf904620503a78.
⏳ Opening new 5,000,000 channel to zlnd0 0251fff168b58b74e9b476af5a515b91fe0540a3681bc97fbb65379a807aea5f66.
⏳ Opening new 5,000,000 channel to Voltage 031f2669adab71548fad4432277a0d90233e3bc07ac29cfb0b3e01bd3fb26cb9fa.
⏳ Opening new 10,000,000 channel to ACINQ 03864ef025fde8fb587d989186ce6a4a186895ee44a926bfc370e2c366597a3f8f.
⏳ Opening new 10,000,000 channel to OpenNode.com 03abf6f44c355dec0d5aa155bdbdd6e0c8fefe318eff402de65c6eb2e1be55dc3e.
⏳ Opening new 5,000,000 channel to LDK<script>alert(hi);</script> 03db10aa09ff04d3568b0621750794063df401e6853c79a21a83e1a3f3b5bfb0c8.
RecklessApotheosis 03c72f89

Alright folks, siphoning funds from custodial BlueWallet to self-custody LNDHub on RecklessApotheosis is complete, just a day before BW's shutdown! If you still have LN funds on BW don't forget to take them off today! With that complete, RA is going down for an LND update. Forwards are currently disabled, and we'll see how painless going from LND 0.15.4->0.16.2 is!

And after only 36 minutes we're back up and operational everyone, running the latest and greatest of all the software! I'm going to enjoy my homemade pupusa dinner while everyone who hasn't yet, opens a channel to RecklessApotheosis for 0/0 fees for 30 days! Also, I'm working on improving my opener script to manage batched opens better.

ℹ️ Info: RecklessApotheosis running 0.16.2-beta commit=v0.16.2-beta
03c72f89b660de43fc5c77ef879cbf7846601af88befb80e436242909b14fd0495

87 active channels and 92 peers.

Happy SatStacker...Monday? This weekend was super busy, so this update is a little delayed. We had another great routing week: RecklessApotheosis didn't lose any channels this week and grew by 8! We routed an excellent 107m sats, finally cresting the 1k tx watermark for the first time! We also implemented a local LNDHub instance for our Bitcoin Workshop, as well as upgraded LND to 0.16.2. Remember, you can always open up a channel to #RecklessApotheosis and we'll refund the first 300 sats of your opening fees and give you 0/0 routing fees for 30 days! Stay reckless and happy routing!

Happy #SatStackerSunday! What a mempool eh folks? I think Plebnet Noderunnings reached a new ATH for messages sent in a single day! As both heavily involved in the Bitcoin Mining arena as well as Lightning, RecklessApotheosis is crazy excited as well as mildly concerned over the number of transactions being mined every block! We had a slow routing week, only growing by a single channel, but at least we didn't lose any for the second week running! Which, given the painful FC fees people are reporting, we are hugely blessed to have escaped so far! Routing slowed way down, likely due to de-risking by other routing nodes and a reduction in global rebalances, also the reduction in newly opened channels resulted in a reduction of local balancing of new channels. We only routed 65m sats over 515 transactions, but hey, no closures! So I'm counting this as a win! Also we're planning a Plebnet meetup on Thursday the 18th in Miami, more details to follow hopefully! Remember, you can always open up a channel to #RecklessApotheosis (should you dare) and we'll refund the first 300 sats of your opening fees and give you 0/0 routing fees for 30 days! Stay reckless and happy routing!

RecklessApotheosis unfortunately experienced 17 minutes of downtime trying to change lnd to avoid an imminent FC. The attempt appears to have been unsuccessful. Everything should be back up now.