The only pubkeys I am willing to divulge are my NOSTR and  @PUBKEY 😂  

 Fair 

 I might re-think this going forward, but for now I am not publicly divulging this.
 

 I'm always looking for good channel partners 

 I'm not actively routing public payments as I learned all I needed to by doing this for some while and I know you can't currently make it worthwhile in terms of fees / time spent managing.

Alex Bosworth, one of the leading Lightning guys is honest about this over on X, I remember around a year or two ago he disclosed that he earns around $30K for running a 10 BTC node (I believe). 

 He earns 30k ??!

https://media.tenor.com/PQreEw8d3fQAAAAC/tom-delonge-blink182.gif 

 Yes, working full time 50+ hours a week, plus having 10 BTC liquidity and being one of the biggest, most active nodes on the network. This dates back  a while.

https://x.com/alexbosworth


 

 When I first setup my 2 Umbrel nodes, originally RPIs with 4GB + 2 TB SSD & 8GB + 1TB SSD respectively, I used the Lightning node itself to open channels using https://amboss.space/ and https://lightningnetwork.plus/ to find suitable nodes.

This was easy and cheap at the time. I remember setting up several triangle nodes to small capacity nodes on my first Umbrel and several large capacity channels to large public nodes on my second Umbrel. I also setup large channels between my own two nodes so I could route payments across my own network. I was experimenting heavily.

To rebalance, I installed RTL, Ride the Lightning and Thunderhub, but quickly realised that RTL was the tool for me. I also installed an auto rebalancing tool called LNDg, which I spent many months watching YouTube videos and reading articles in a failed attempt to master.
 

 Umbrel doesn't mount external hard drives for some reason. 

 My Umbrel home mounted my RPI SSD drive to migrate across successfully.

But I haven't tried adding additional storage to date.
 

 It'll only install to one hard drive and then it will not recognize any others. 

 🥹 

 You can program your routing and balancing yourself with lnd-rest - it's easy python 😁 

 Good old triangle swaps. Good times.  

 Things were better before the war 😂  

 Lndg is great. Set it to rebalance at 70% of Channel fee and let it fly. 

It has a nasty anti pattern though:

Your channel liquidity gets drained instantly at a low fee. So you rush in and raise the fee.. And lndg quickly rebalances at that higher fee 😂 

 Have you upgraded to umbrel 1.x? 

 Home comes with it. 

Currently 1.2.2