Quote from: Rath_ on September 02, 2021, 11:18:03 PM

Quote from: n0nce on August 31, 2021, 10:08:09 PM

Hey LN friends, I'm a c-lightning user for around half a year now, and I'm seriously debating about switching to lnd instead. What do you guys think is the cleaner solution? And what is the more commonly used implementation here?

I have been using c-lightning for quite some time now and I am really satisfied with it. I am not a developer, though. All I care about is stability and some useful features. I really like that you can easily open multiple channels via a single command (unlike LND which I believe requires user to construct a transaction manually using PSBTs). We have been also experimenting with dual-funding here.

Oh, now that you mention channel opening: an issue that has been very annoying for me a few times already, is that I can't have multiple channels with another peer. I'm sure it's more clean and more c-style to have 1 larger channel instead of 2 small channels, but there are situations where you'd rather add another channel instead of closing and re-opening for example. No idea why exactly it's not possible in c-lightning, but annoying from a day-to-day user perspective imho.

Quote from: Rath_ on September 02, 2021, 11:18:03 PM

I also used that case (without the m.2 slot) for my build. Nevertheless, the Pi was getting quite hot very often despite the built-in fan and included thermal pads. Also, the fan is a little bit noisy above 50% of its maximum speed. I eventually moved my node from the Pi to a normal server.

That's good to know. So it was hot with c-lightning or lnd? And did you then use an external SSD or how did you manage the storage?

Quote from: Rath_ on September 02, 2021, 11:18:03 PM

Quote from: n0nce on September 02, 2021, 10:22:49 AM

[...] but I would like to mention that I tried c-lightning with a pruned node, since it was mentioned everywhere that it should be possible, then ran into issues. When asking in the community, I was told that indeed those issues were due to me running Bitcoin Core pruned, so I had to go back to square 1 and restart Bitcoin Core in non-pruned mode.

Thanks! As you already know, I am working on the update of the first post. I will make sure to include this piece of information.

Yup, thanks for including that info! Will prob. be the first big "LN info" place that actually tells people to "just get a larger drive" XD Since it's honestly a pain with pruned, and maybe worked in the past or something but tons of users run into issues with it.