2 years ago
The communicative of a Lightning Node and a roadworthy trip, showing conscionable however mobile your Bitcoin acquisition tin be.
This is an sentiment editorial by Anthony Feliciano, a Bitcoin lawsuit organizer and Bitcoin Magazine contributor.
A mates of years ago, I had an contented erstwhile my powerfulness went retired astatine my apartment, and my RaspiBlitz went offline. It was the commencement of a caller project, i.e., “how bash I forestall this from happening again?” I won't spell into the method setup successful this article, arsenic I person written an article with in-depth instructions connected however you tin effort this retired for yourself.
This is much of a amusive lets get #reckless with a Lightning Node article. I mean, if we are going to telephone ourselves Bitcoiners and not get #reckless with tools, applications, and hardware, past what are we doing? The premise here, I was being sent to California for work. Now, if you tally an LN node astatine home, you acquisition powerfulness outages, net outages, hardware freeze-ups and thing other you tin brushwood portion maintaining a node — but you are home, truthful you cognize however to hole everything and get backmost to mean with minimum down time. What if you are connected the roadworthy for an extended play of clip and that happens? Hopefully you person idiosyncratic astatine location that tin hole it for you oregon astatine slightest usher them. If you don't, are you going to permission your node offline for “x” fig of days? I mean I conjecture that's being #reckless successful a way. What did I do, you ask? Why, I took it connected the roadworthy with maine of course. The word mobile banking has been utilized for a mates of decades due to the fact that of the improvement of protocols, infrastructure, and hardware that marque it each possible. So I thought, what if I could amusement disconnected my Raspiblitz node arsenic mobile banking 2.0?
Now lets get #reckless
I drove implicit 1,000 miles from Denver, Colorada to El Segundo, California.
I packed the family, grabbed my LN node and we deed the road. Here is simply a pic arsenic we left. My car was loaded with the family, kids, dogs and my node. I needed to find a bully capable spot, wherever it wouldn't get manhandled excessively much. I beauteous overmuch kept it nether the spot the full clip — a bully trial to spot however agelong the artillery volition past connected this unit. I had ne'er afloat tested the artillery beingness before.
This adjacent pic is determination successful Utah. I don't retrieve where, but it was midday and clip for immoderate lunch. My artillery was inactive live and the node was synced. I cognize I mislaid transportation done parts of the Rocky Mountains but the node synced up erstwhile cellular transportation was reestablished.
The different photograph I'm showing is the RaspiBlitz paper screen, showing my node is connected and synced. **Note** I lone took 1 photograph of the menu, arsenic it was not needed to amusement aggregate times.
Our adjacent halt would beryllium Las Vegas for the night. Sometime aft we near Utah and got to Las Vegas the artillery yet died and my node went offline. I got a spot #reckless due to the fact that I was driving and forgot to cheque the battery, and fto it die. I estimation the artillery beingness to beryllium astir 8 hours. I didn't support a afloat clip cheque connected it but it served a bully portion of the archetypal limb of the trip. Once we got to Las Vegas I recharged the artillery backup and resynced. Once I got a bully capable complaint I took it retired for different photo.
It conscionable happened to beryllium the nighttime of the 2022 NFL draught successful Las Vegas.
"With the archetypal prime of the 2022 NFL draft, the Jacksonville Jaguars select, RaspiBlitz!" *The assemblage goes wild!*
The adjacent time we near for California. The artillery battalion kept the node powered the full mode to the hotel, astir 5 hours for us. While California was our location for a week I didn't instrumentality the node with maine portion connected the road. Sometimes I did, and sometimes I near it astatine the hotel. As you tin conjecture the node volition lone sync erstwhile it receives my compartment telephone hotspot connection. So, the days I didn't instrumentality it with me, I turned it disconnected astatine the edifice and erstwhile I got back, powered backmost connected and resynced.
Could I person tried to configure the node to link to edifice WiFi? Possibly, if I edited the WiFi file. I would person needed a surface to spot the assigned IP code to connect. That’s 1 downside of going headless (without a screen) without a transportation to your ain devices.
Next up was a photograph op astatine Surfside Brewery. As you tin spot I person it chilling connected the barroom with me. Yes wholly #reckless. I get it. This would beryllium the aforesaid determination a mates days aboriginal wherever I held 1 of my Cryptobeerkings events which I usually bash successful Denver — but wherefore not instrumentality everything mobile, and dispersed the connection of Bitcoin done events similar these, successful a wholly antithetic authorities and with a clump caller Bitcoiners that I got to meet?
The week came to an extremity and we had to marque the instrumentality journey, which was a beauteous akin two-day trip. This was the past photograph I took from the edifice successful St. George, Utah.
To wrapper it each up — it was a palmy #reckless roadworthy trip. We did implicit 2200 miles with 2 kids, 2 Siberian Huskies and my LN node. Through it each my node survived the task determination and back. I stake a batch of radical seeing the photos and speechmaking the stories went full-on cringe mode. I get it. That was the constituent of this travel and article. I wanted to papers the travel of being #reckless portion inactive showing the abilities of Bitcoin, truthful others don't person to. I wanted to amusement each the tools the awesome Bitcoin developers person spent years moving on, really being applied successful real-world usage cases. We arsenic a assemblage person moved connected from Bitcoin Twitter, users who can't codification oregon develop, to being capable to use these tools successful real-world situations and marque up excuses to get #reckless and to succeed! This is simply a testament to this community.
That being said, my setup was not perfect. I'm definite determination are amended cases oregon products that would person made the full setup better. Yes — but this is what I had astatine my disposal astatine the time. Maybe immoderate hardware and/or developers volition work this and travel up with a amended solution, which I truly anticipation idiosyncratic does arsenic it lone benefits america arsenic a community. If you were wondering, I utilized the Zeus app arsenic my mobile telephone app. I was capable to link to my node via a Tor address. I adjacent tested payments from it successful the days starring up to the Cryptobeerkings lawsuit astatine Surfside Brewery.
I anticipation you’re “wowed” and/or inspired to travel with immoderate amusive ways to get #reckless. So, is this mobile banking 2.0? Bitcoin mobile banking? Eh, we volition enactment connected the terminology later. Enjoy friends. #Reckless.
This is simply a impermanent station by Anthony Feliciano. Opinions expressed are wholly their ain and bash not needfully bespeak those of BTC Inc oregon Bitcoin Magazine.
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