RecklessApotheosis is going down for database compaction and vacuuming, forwards have been disabled, don't see any pending UTXOs, it may be a few hours as I'm also working on server stuff!

That most certainly did not work out as expected. We experienced 33 hours of downtime not routing because while changing networking configuration to fix a different issue, a new one was introduced that I missed. During the downtime, we lost a total of 19 channels due to FCs, luckily due to the lower network fees this only burned a total of ~58k sats, but it's still too much. To our peers who experienced FCs as a result of our server issues we apologize! This is certainly not the level of professionalism the Lightning network needs to succeed. We took the downtime opportunity to upgrade most of the software running the node, the CPU, RAM, and hopefully permanently fix the networking. We'll be reaching out to the noderunners we burnt through this event to try to make things right and get more channels opened! Thank you all for your awesome support throughout this, especially the noderunners channel and @wyssblitz, @filouman, @SynthLock, @Hakezuba, @alexbosworth, and @nitesh_btc!

Every miner on earth is hashing right now, especially ours! We are 33 blocks away from the Halving and the Bitcoin hashrate is at an all-time-high of 615 Exahash. The Difficulty Adjustment is in 4 days and forecast to go up, if it does, we may have a couple of weeks of slow blocks as miners turn off rigs and the diff remains high, leading to higher fees. Get in your somewhat less expensive channel opens now before it's too late! RecklessApotheosis is still welcoming dual-funded channels of 10m sats or more, and 0 fees for 30 days as well as a refund of 3k sats to inbound opens!

RecklessApotheosis fees are temporarily high to discourage routing and to recover the cost of potential FCs, they'll return to normal when the mempool is done being crazy!

RecklessApotheosis is down for upgrades and a reboot prior to leaving for Nashville!

Driving to the @ThankGodForBTC conference in Nashville today with some spices jalapeños in tow! Roadtripping across the continent to meet some of the most awesome folks on the planet! Ping me if you are going to be there and want to meet up!

RecklessApotheosis was down about an hour ago while we were driving through Nebraska. Apparently my upgrade hit an inadvertent bug (https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/3078), and I had to delete my tls.cert amd restart lnd. Routing should resume shortly!

Downtime Alert: RecklessApotheosis is going down for planned maintenance! We are restarting the node for compaction (database is 21gb) and to apply config changes (it has been up for 26 days!). Expected duration will be ~4 hours. In the meantime, if you haven't already, take a moment to classify our node! ⚡⚡⚡ https://www.amboss.space/c/reckless and if our channel doesn't come back up, reach out to us on Telegram @recklessapotheosis! #LiveReckless

Happy Whitepaper Day from the 3rd LCS MiPrimer Cohort! Celebrating Bitcoin's sweet sixteen with epic BTC-TC cards, My First Bitcoin Chapter 2, and candy as our students learn about what constitutes money!

RecklessApotheosis is down as I am currently migrating the lnd database over to the new VM! I have no ETA yet on when it will be back up, but when it is, it will be on new hardware!

Battery backup for the node during this power outage from high wind is holding up well, but our Spectrum DSL just went out, so hold tight everyone and hopefully we will be up and routing again in a few hours!

RecklessApotheosis is rebooting for critical software updates, it should be back shortly!