FAQ

FAQ

Q1 Recommendations for Good Peers

There is no straightforward recommendation.

1- I would recommend all my channels as good peers. My channel list is public (like everyone else)

2- Terminal ranks peers based on their criteria.

3- lnnode helps you do channel simulation of how your centrality is impacted by adding someone as a peer.

4- gridflare provides recommendations individual to your own channel.

5- Communicating within plebnet groups let you interact with node operators who you can judge from their interaction as good peers

6- ultimately anyone willing to open up their node for routing and investing, time, effort, and sats to operate a lightning node is a good peer.

Also see Opening channels and Resources

Q2 Other node cann not connect to my TOR node

If the other node is a clearnet node, you would need to add them as peer first before they can connect/open channel to you. You can add peer via RTL/ThunderHub or other apps or using command line ~/umbrel/bin/lncli connect <PubKey or URI of the peer>. For example to connect to my node as peer, please use

~/umbrel/bin/lncli connect 03c5528c628681aa17ab9e117aa3ee6f06c750dfb17df758ecabcd68f1567ad8c1

OR

~/umbrel/bin/lncli connect 03c5528c628681aa17ab9e117aa3ee6f06c750dfb17df758ecabcd68f1567ad8c1@zacadqiqgi43tdv4ztjet2fh22f72ol2tokotp5cqdbszgx6tpyqdxad.onion:9735