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- BTC stack: 1.4692 BTC
- € stack: 436.60 €
- Current total value in €: 28,717.60 €
- Current total value in €: 34,407.44 €
- € into BTC: 30,000 €
- Paid back to bank: 2,563.40 €
- Paid back to bank: 2,929.60 €
- Outstanding debt: 41,380.93 €
- Installments to go: 113
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## Log
Another month passes by and we are already well inside 2023.
Another month passes by, and we are already well inside 2023.
This past month I've been busy working on my node. Or to be more specific, working in my new node. In 2022, I
This past month I've been busy working on my node. Or to be more specific, working on my new node. In 2022, I
started running an Umbrel node, which has been acting as my bitcoin and lightning node and is still alive and
kicking as off today. But some time ago I decided I wanted to dettach myself from Umbrel, so I'm preparing a plan
to move my node over to a new machine and a new kind of deployment.
kicking as off today. But some time ago I decided I wanted to dettach myself from Umbrel, so I'm migrating my node
over to a new machine and a new kind of deployment.
I decided to ditch Umbrel for two reasons. The first one is that sometimes I want to play around within the "guts"
of my node to modify things or add stuff that Umbrel doesn't offer, and so far it has always been a pain in the
ass. My general experience is that it's risky and never ends up looking elegant, but feels rather like a poor
work held together with duct tape. The second one is that updates have not been working properly with my Umbrel
instance (I suspect this may be related with the previous point). This is a red flag, since I want to feel
comfortable upgrading all the services in my node. The couple of times LND broke the past year were good reminders
of the importane of paying attention to updates in the Bitcoin domain.
of my node to modify things or add stuff that Umbrel doesn't offer, and so far doing this has always been a pain
in the ass with Umbrel. My general experience is that it's risky and never ends up looking elegant, but feels rather
like a poor work held together with duct tape. The second one is that updates have not been working properly with
my Umbrel instance (I suspect this may be related with the previous point). This is a huge red flag, since I want to
feel comfortable upgrading all the services in my node at any time. The couple of times LND broke the past year were
good reminders of the importane of paying attention to updates in the Bitcoin domain.
Just a disclaimer: I still think Umbrel is great. I don't want this rant to sound like I'm shitting on them.
It's the only hope for a noob to run a node without going bald out of frustration, and it does its job nicely.
It's the only hope for a noob to run a node without going bald out of frustration, and it does the job nicely.
It just comes short for a power user or someone that wants to have full and absolute control, which is completely
fine since I don't think Umbrel's goal ever was to catter that audience.
@ -59,15 +59,15 @@ old machine and start it again on the new one while keeping all data the exact s
mostly uninterrupted and nothing changes from the point of view of my peers.
A fun side story: the new machine I'll be running the node on is an old gaming desktop box. A neighbor was getting
rid of it and I bumped into him seconds before he was throwing it into a garbage container. I asked a bit and
apparently he just thought it was "too old" and already had bought a new one, so, to his eyes, it was garbage
rid of it and I bumped into him when he was seconds away from throwing it into a garbage container. I asked a bit
and apparently he just thought it was "too old" and already had bought a new one, so, to his eyes, it was garbage
already. I asked him if I could keep it and he was more than happy to give it away to me.
Long story short, the machine is running perfectly. I cleaned up the tons of dust that were living inside the
case, bought some new hard drives (my neighbor had taken them out) and gave the CPU and new brush of thermal paste
and voilà. It is not crazy powerful, but it's much better than the modern mini-pc in which I've been running my
umbrel node so far. Since I'm a rather austere person, I was very happy to get my new machine this way. I can happily
use the money I saved to get a few more sats, and the local garbage dump doesn't need to take more stuff. It was
use the money I saved to get a few more sats, and the local garbage dump didn't need to take more stuff. It was
also great to learn more about the hardware of desktop PCs. I had never before disassembled a desktop PC fully, so
I had to do some research to get things done.