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 Although having my LN address in self custody costs me many missed zaps and time spent maintaining the node, it’s still worth it! 🐶🐾🫡⚡️💯 
 can I ask what are you using to make this happen? 
 You absolutely can. My current setup is:
- Ubuntu 22.04
- dedicated internet connection 
- Enterprise server with 8 cores and 128GB ECC ram
- Mirrored SSD and replicated PGSQL between two separate servers
- Eclair 0.9.1 
- LNBits and RTL
🐶🐾🫡 
 Super helpful! Was wondering what your setup consisted of. 
 Why do you miss zaps? 
 Not all of them make to my node due to LN not having routes to my node. 🐶🐾🫡 
 Do you have an idea how many? How do you know or quantify it if so?

I run a private node and haven't seen any logs for failures. I'm pretty well connected IMO but I honestly don't know if I miss out on zaps or not. I get some but I figure my notes just aren't worth zapping. 
 You can see by looking at the fetched invoices, those rarely fail. Of course it’s possible that the person decided not to pay, but I know for a fact that some fail after people letting me know 🐶🐾🫡 
 Okay cool. I use lnbits for my lnurlp backend and it shows when invoices are requested and when they don't fulfill.

I just don't get zapped often then 😄 thanks 
 JUST TRIED TO ZAP YOU AND IT FAILED FWIW 
 Thanks. I'll do some testing and maybe try opening some more channels. 
 this 👇🏻
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 I go back amd forth on this, but i agree with the vibe and to serve as an example 🤙

Id zap you but my self custodied mutiny wallet funds froze up and im waiting anxiously for the force closening 😭😂 
 🐶🐾🫂🫂🫂 I know the feeling! I’ve lost a lot in force closures myself 
 Lost count, but cant bring myself to not press on 🤙  
 Yes! Let’s push on! 🐶🐾🫂🙏🏻 
 And, man when it works the way you wanted, incredible feeling 
 Yes! But I think I would need 10+ more channels for my node to be more reachable. I only have 26 now 🐶🐾🫡 
 If you had channels with alby and WoS, dont you think thatd cover most zaps ? 
 Alby became impossible now, min 50M channel. I have channel with WoS and Kappa already, as well as ACINQ 🐶🐾🫡 
 the worries of running nodes :/  
 🐶🐾🫂👀👀👀 
 Zappid, first time a success from my own nose.