Running a Lightning node is not passive — here's everything that went wrong on mine (and how I fixed it)

Most Lightning node content is "here's how to install Umbrel." Nobody writes about what happens six months later when things start breaking.

I've been running a full LND node in production and documented every major problem I hit:

- Force closes from liquidity marketplaces the moment the 30-day guarantee expires

- Top nodes (ACINQ, Bitfinex) that drain your channel liquidity completely in hours

- LND bugs that don't announce themselves — including the btcd consensus divergence and UTXO sweep issues

- Tor under sustained DDoS — CPU spikes, degraded routing, and why you still need it over clearnet

First chapter is free, rest is behind a paywall. Worth it if you're running or planning to run a node.

???? https://davidebtc186.substack.com/p/what-nobody-tells-you-about-running