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lightning_node_management.md

@@ -187,3 +187,55 @@ channels mature a bit so that I earn some street creed that allows me to get
 into more exclusive swaps.
 
 I can already tell it's gonna be quite a few nights of little sleep...
+
+## Plebnet tribe
+
+Plebnet this, plebnet that... I kept reading about the plebs everywhere.
+Apparently it's just this bunch of people gathering in telegram to open
+channels and help each other out. Old school forum style, like in the P2P
+piracy times.
+
+Today I stumbled upon the [plebnet wiki](https://plebnet.wiki/wiki/Main_Page)
+and I found quite a few useful things. When reading this and similar resources,
+I'm realising that there's a lot of people doing exactly the same discovery
+path I am going through with the lightning network. It's very exciting to see
+this happening. Will it blow up exponentially? I keep on dreaming awake with
+that idea.
+
+Anyways, for the cool stuff:
+
+- I read their hardening page. It seems pretty standard linux security, so I
+  don't feel I need to take any extra steps in this topic.
+- [A small guide](https://plebnet.wiki/wiki/Upgrading_Umbrel_Node) on how to
+  upgrade umbrel. It seems umbrel is a rather popular choice.
+
+## The self-routing trick...
+
+I was reading a post on the lightningnetwork subreddit when I spotted a
+brilliant idea. Like all routing nodes wannabe, I will be having troubles
+pretty often with getting remote balance. The only chances to get some are
+swaps (which only provides at the beginning), services like LOOP (which come
+with a hefty fee) and natural flow of payments (which will only happen with a
+lot of time, effort and capital).
+
+And there comes this guy and says: "you can also get remote balance by spending
+your money". Brilliant! It's completely true. If I ever need to pay for
+something through the Lightning Network, I can just do it through the node and
+afterwards refill it through the main chain with new btc. Since I can do my
+grocery shopping with bitrefill, that means I have like 300.000sats of weekly
+rebalancing power.
+
+So things would go this way:
+
+1. Buy a 100€ grocery voucher through bitrefill. Pay the invoice through an
+   unbalanced channel of my node. Now I owe Counterweight LTD 100€.
+2. When I owe Counterweight LTD a reasonable amount, like 500€, get some BTC
+   with my own money and send it to Counterweight LTD wallet.
+3. Done! No debts outstanding and the channels have been rebalanced.
+
+It's just great. Basically, I'm playing LOOP's role with myself, so I get the
+same benefit without having to pay their huge fees. Plus, I do my groceries
+with btc. How badass is that?
+
+I just need to be tidy with keeping track of the balances and that should be
+it.