Oddbean new post about login | logout My home internet service went down about 10 hours ago and hasn’t been restored yet. They promised a time that already passed and haven’t given me a new estimate. As a result, my node is offline and unable to sync. Imagine traveling to another country and the only funds available to you are on your node at home, and it’s unreachable. This is one of those use cases for keeping some spending money on either custodial or non-custodial mobile Lightning wallets. Sometimes you have to make trade-offs for convenience.
Have you looked into a backup UPS?
What would that do when the internet is down? It’s not a power outage.
Very valid point you make. I've had several short ISP outages of several hours each and only one of them was restored in the time promised 😞. #BTC #Zap #Nostr #Bitcoin
This is for lightning only correct?
I’m speaking of Lightning specifically because as a second layer it is dependent on a node with a constant internet connection to work. If you have access to on-chain funds, you can use them to make a payment or to fund a new Lightning wallet, but you’d still have to wait for the transaction to confirm.
@blockstream satellite fixes this. It’s not that hard to set up and there’s even a chance you have most of the required equipment sitting disused on your home.
I should be clear: this is for getting blockchain data to feed your node. Sending your 250 byte transaction without internet was fixed years ago…I haven’t done this in a long time but there may still be an sms relay for bitcoin transactions. It takes two sms texts to send a tx.
I have a TrueNAS running at home so I’m not dependent on internet bandwidth to access my stuff, but yeah, everything else is DC’d. I got tired of residential internet ruining my day.
What’s DC?
Data center?
What’s DC?
Data center?
I don’t have a way to do that with my setup.