BitcoinLizard's Blog
Difficulty: Low
When it comes to sending Bitcoin transactions of any kind, I try to pay the smallest fee possible. With the current popularity of inscriptions the fee market has changed. Apparently I’m still adjusting to the change and recently made a mistake in picking my transaction fee when opening a lightning channel with my Core Lightning node. The result was a lightning channel open transaction that would never have confirmed.
Difficulty: Low
A lot of posts on this blog will be about running your own Bitcoin infrastructure without the major node in a box implementations such Umbrel. This has the benefit of getting new features and critical updates sooner as you don’t have to wait for the node in a box implementation to push a new update. The official distribution site for the Bitcoin Core node software does include a binary for Raspberry Pi so there is no need to build from source yourself. I’m not sure that was always the case so at one time I went through the process of building Bitcoin-QT myself and have been doing so ever since.