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I am starting a gradual upgrade to LND 0.18.0-beta. Some servers are not working now (4 servers). After the upgrade will be upgraded the other three servers. Everything will be back to work in half an hour to an hour. Thank you for your understanding! ;)
#LNBiG #LightningNetwork

2023-11-24 23:42:11

The last 24 hours of #LNBIG (2023-11-24):
Amount transactions: 56996
The sum of transfered BTC: 29.18311177
Percentile 0%: 1 sats
Percentile 25%: 1 sats
Percentile 50%: 1 sats
Percentile 75%: 331 sats
Percentile 95%: 191243 sats
Last 24 hours #fee #earning: 61460 sat (0.0006146 BTC)
What distinguishes this day from others - even more than 50% of all transactions - with a volume of exactly 1 satoshi. As you can see, the median value is 1 sat. But the number of transactions per day is also large - usually 20-30 thousand maximum.
We can make a rough conclusion that about 30 thousand transactions today are exactly 1 sat. Maybe these are zaps with advertising to Wallet of Satoshi's wallets? I do not know, but for some reason it seems so to me (I myself receive such spam).
#LightningNetwork #stats

2023-11-09 15:38:31

Some nodes did not work for about 8-9 hours (from 2023-11-09 03:38 UTC time). I apologize for the downtime. The reason is that one of the running bitcoin core servers did not respond, which is why the lnd servers shut down themselves. #LNBiG #Downtime #Status #LightningNetwork

2023-10-19 14:31:51

Some Nostr explorers show the incoorrect link because it's of markdown format one
Here is the separated link:
https://blogstack.io/naddr1qqyrjep5x4jnycnxqy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsygy68xlcxlyx34s7mrxwdfx85r4eda09hnqg9tt2lh25jm9kzj3rlvpsgqqqw4rsfpmmag
#nevent1q…sqgy

2023-10-19 14:27:13

New post from me 😉
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[Statistics - record volume and new channel efficiency leaders](https://blogstack.io/naddr1qqyrjep5x4jnycnxqy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsygy68xlcxlyx34s7mrxwdfx85r4eda09hnqg9tt2lh25jm9kzj3rlvpsgqqqw4rsfpmmag)
[Nostr note](#naddr1qq…mmag)
#LightningNetwork #LNBiG #Stats #Statistics #Lightning #Channels

2023-10-14 23:29:54

Interesting #statistics of #LNBiG for the last 24 hours.
Now I have 0/0 commissions for most channels (completely zero) - this is done for #rebalancing (only if the channel has more than 80% of the balance on my side and it's public one). If a balance is from 20% to 80% for public channels or for all private channels, then the #commission is 1000/1000 (1000 msats base fee and 1000 ppm rate or 0.1%).
Such commissions have been standing for about a week, but usually the volume of passing payments per day did not exceed 10 BTC, and commissions were not collected even $10 per day in sats (30K-40K sats).
But today's day is just very different from the days of all time. This is the first day in my memory when about $100 per day was #earned on commissions!
The last 24 hours of LNBIG:
Amount transactions: 9681
The sum of transfered BTC: 28.89890006
Percentile 0%: 1 sats
Percentile 25%: 5000 sats
Percentile 50%: 35900 sats
Percentile 75%: 149081 sats
Percentile 95%: 1007812 sats
Last 24 hours fee earning: 348034 sat (0.00348034 BTC)
Based on these data, the following conclusion can be drawn. The number of payments was as usual - it was always about 8,000-9,000 per day. But today the volume is simply colossal: 29 BTC. But what is even more important - the commissions amounted to almost $93 per day (348K sats). If you divide the commissions by volume, you get 0.012%, which is 10 times less than the commissions of balanced public channels. It can be roughly concluded that a lot of payments went through channels with zero commission, but also that 1/10 of the volume of payments went through balanced channels (or private ones) with a 0.1% commission.
I remind you that the commissions in the channel are applied at the rates of the node from which the financial flow is coming.
#Example:
That is, my commissions are applied only if the financial flow goes from my nodes to external nodes. For example, if you are connected to me as a private channel and pay the user Wallet of Satoshi, and I have a channel with their node (WoS) where the commission is 0/0, then you will pay 0 sats. But if the user of #WoS paying you into a private channel connected to me then the payer of WoS will pay 0.1% (LNBiG's fee for private channels) + fee of WoS side set on the channel between WoS and LNBiG.
#LightningNetwork #Lightning #fees #fee

2023-09-24 01:01:16

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#nevent1q…eqe2

2023-09-23 23:33:20

I would like to present to your attention my node efficiency #statistics. It is built according to my method, which, perhaps, no one has used yet. Here is his description:
For example, we build statistics for the last N days. Creating for each node an array of length N with the following structure for each element:
[ "sent sats in this day", "received sats in this day", "volume of all channels of this node in this day" ]
We take [all transactions transmitted through our nodes node for this period](https://lightning.engineering/api-docs/api/lnd/lightning/forwarding-history), and taking into account the [chan_id_in and chan_id_out](https://lightning.engineering/api-docs/api/lnd/lightning/forwarding-history#lnrpcforwardingevent) of each transaction, we form arrays for each node - that is, we adjust the values "sent sats in this day" and "received sats in this day".
It is necessary to take into account both open channels and closed ones. For open channels, it is necessary to take into account on what day they were open, and for closed ones - on what day they were open and on what day they were closed. We calculate the days taking into account chan_id of channel and the approximate fact that there are 144 blocks in a day. We take this into account to calculate the total channel volume of each day for each node ("volume of all channels of this node in this day"). We take the time (timestamp_ns) of the transaction from [forwarding event](https://lightning.engineering/api-docs/api/lnd/lightning/forwarding-history#lnrpcforwardingevent).
After all the calculations, we calculate the coefficient (K) for each day of each node: ("sent sats in this day" + "received sats in this day") / "volume of all channels of this node in this day"
This coefficient "K" shows us with what efficiency the channels were used that day. After all, you can transfer a stream of 1M sats through channel(s) with a total volume of 1M sats (K will be 1.0), and you can transfer this 1M sats through a 100K channel, but using it is 10x times more efficient (K will be 10.0)!
After all, I take the median value for each node for all days - this will be the K_target value. Then I sort all the nodes by one such value K_target - nodes with a higher coefficient get higher and are more efficient for us than with a smaller one.
And now there will be results ;-)
#LNBiG #LightningNetwork #Lightning #Stats #Algorithm

2023-09-23 22:34:53

The **third change** is that outgoing paid channels are opened with a mandatory requirement to support anchor channels from your side!
For most, this change will go unnoticed, but for the owners of the old lightning nodes software, this means that they will not be able to open a paid channel outgoing to them from the LNBiG network (of course, funds for payment will not be taken thanks to the HODL invoice).
I have to do this for the reason that in the current situation it is very dangerous to have channels without anchor support. Such channels are difficult to close if the bitcoin network fee market is growing and remains with a high fees for a very long time.
#LightningNetwork #LNBiG #News
#nevent1q…7fdw

2023-09-23 22:25:24

The other good #news is that the #Tor v3 network is already configured on [those seven nodes](https://lnbig.com/#/our-nodes) that will continue to work.
Each of the seven nodes has an IPv4 and Tor address. #IPv6 I will add later. This means that you can open channels from the Tor network to these nodes. I also added the ability to open outgoing paid channels to nodes in the Tor v3 network (previously, this required a node from the Tor network to make a connection to the my node specified in the instructions for opening a paid channel). #LNBiG #LightningNetwork
#nevent1q…ar26

2023-09-23 22:19:27

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I have collected and will collect statistics on all good channels and their nodes, and then I will open channels from those 7 nodes that will work further. To do this, I will finish the scripts that will do this. I will try to make everything go as smoothly as possible.

2023-09-23 22:16:09

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A little more detail about this:
I decided to reduce the number of nodes to optimize my network.
Nodes will be closed gradually, with priority on cooperative closing of channels. All channels on the closing nodes were opened more than 30 days ago. This period is prescribed in the conditions when opening the channel as the minimum period that I tried to observe when opening paid outgoing channels.

2023-09-23 22:11:49

Hello everyone!
There are some #news from [LNBiG](https://lnbig.com/):
The number of nodes of the #LNBiG network will soon be reduced from 25 nodes to 7 ones. For more than a month, the opening of channels has been working only from/to 7 nodes. The list of active nodes is visible in the ["Our nodes"](https://lnbig.com/#/our-nodes) section. #LightningNetwork

2023-06-16 15:13:43

The last 24 hours of LNBIG (2023-06-16):
Amount transactions: 8064
The sum of transfered BTC: 16.17980531
Percentile 0%: 1 sats
Percentile 25%: 15864 sats
Percentile 50%: 73069 sats
Percentile 75%: 189263 sats
Percentile 95%: 831771 sats
Last 24 hours fee earning: 16720 sat (0.0001672 BTC)
#LNBiG #Stats #Lightning #LightningNetwork

2023-05-11 19:41:18

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Except for the subtleties (translate has not been launched yet) - this site is similar in functionality to the original https://snort.social/. This can be useful for those who want to use not one #Nostr network explorer, but several. For example, if the main https://snort.social/ website does not work, you can use #LNBiG fork snort.lnbig.com with own imgproxy site ;-)

2023-05-11 19:37:04

I deployed now the fresh version of Snort web app with own imgproxy (imgproxy.lnbig.com)! Welcome to https://snort.lnbig.com ! #Nostr #Pleb #Plebstr #Snort

2023-05-10 12:02:07

The **last 24 hours** of #LNBIG (**2023-05-10**):
Amount **transactions: 6679**
The sum of **transfered BTC: 8.11484953**
Percentile 0%: 1 sats
Percentile 25%: 21 sats
Percentile 50%: 14358 sats
Percentile 75%: 100000 sats
Percentile 95%: 411354 sats
Last 24 hours **fee earning: 4651 sat** (0.00004651 BTC)
#LightningNetwork #Stats

2023-05-08 01:18:16

https://twitter.com/stephanlivera/status/1654128466575654913 #LightningNetwork #Lightning

2023-05-08 00:47:59

Today #LNBiG stats (2023-05-07):
The last 24 hours of LNBIG:
Amount transactions: 64413
The sum of transfered BTC: 13.71202436
Percentile 0%: 1 sats
Percentile 25%: 2 sats
Percentile 50%: 2 sats
Percentile 75%: 2 sats
Percentile 95%: 43235 sats
Last 24 hours fee earning: 7143 sat (0.00007143 BTC)
Now there are very low fees: 1 msat base fee / 10 ppm (0.001% from payment!). Don't forget open channels with https://lnbig.com/ nodes (when on-chain fees will be sane)! ;-)
#LightningNetwork #Bitcoin #LN #Lightning #Nostr #Plebchain #pleb

2023-04-26 19:36:31

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One shitcoin overtakes another shitcoin. What's great about that? I don't care ;)

2023-04-26 18:58:56

At the moment, the software is being updated on the servers of #LNBiG network, so all servers are being stopped and updated right now. #LightingNetwork

2023-04-02 00:35:24

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🫂

2023-03-30 20:00:35

The LND-39 was moved to LND-38, so if you have a troubles with connect of with channels just connect with new URI:
02c91d6aa51aa940608b497b6beebcb1aec05be3c47704b682b3889424679ca490@213.174.156.82:9735
Or use Amboss explorer for example:
https://amboss.space/node/02c91d6aa51aa940608b497b6beebcb1aec05be3c47704b682b3889424679ca490
#LNBIG

2023-03-22 19:47:20

2023-03-22 Stats of #LNBIG:
The last 24 hours of LNBIG:
Amount transactions: 53058
The sum of transfered BTC: 9.21318097
Percentile 0%: 1 sats
Percentile 25%: 3 sats
Percentile 50%: 4 sats
Percentile 75%: 278 sats
Percentile 95%: 69406 sats
Last 24 hours fee earning: 11864 sat (0.00011864 BTC)

2023-03-20 16:07:21

Today I moved the LND-16 to LND-01 (node 032679fec.....775cf)
If you have a problems with connect please use a following uri address for reconnect:
032679fec1213e5b0a23e066c019d7b991b95c6e4d28806b9ebd1362f9e32775cf@lnd-01.LNBIG.com:9735
OR just scan QR-Code for reconnect (SBW and other wallets):
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_a1bca82fb4d22464bd1792031b4bbc7a15c559e37bdb81b33c4f740dd789a61c.png
#LNBIG #LightningNetwork

2023-03-20 14:32:45

2023-03-20 Stats of #LNBiG:
The last 24 hours of LNBIG:
(!) Amount transactions: 57410 <--- (!)
The sum of transfered BTC: 8.44137731
Percentile 0%: 1 sats
Percentile 25%: 4 sats
Percentile 50%: 5 sats
Percentile 75%: 116 sats
Percentile 95%: 65906 sats
Last 24 hours fee earning: 10229 sat (0.00010229 BTC)
Is it #Nostrica conference? What are you thinking about this?

2023-03-14 12:52:49

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Cool! :)

2023-03-10 15:44:13

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Sometimes the network graph of LN has old IPs for some nodes. It's problem of v0.15.5 of LND. I hope that v0.16 will resolve this problem (I often moved nodes to other hardware because I am doing now an upgrade of servers hardware)

2023-03-10 15:40:02

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OMG! :)

2023-03-10 15:37:29

Thank you, #[0], for big zap! 10k sats!🙏🙏🙏

2023-03-10 12:44:19

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There is report a report of report? Is it possible? :))

2023-03-10 12:21:34

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Everything was ok yesterday. Please more info if you have a problems now

2023-03-09 18:50:59

The last 24 hours of #LNBIG:
Amount transactions: 12257
The sum of transfered BTC: 34.89837968
Percentile 0%: 1 sats
Percentile 25%: 1000 sats
Percentile 50%: 36063 sats
Percentile 75%: 105253 sats
Percentile 95%: 2860454 sats
Last 24 hours fee earning: 77715 sat (0.00077715 BTC)

2023-03-03 20:28:35

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Thank you, bot Love, for 21 zap :)

2023-03-03 20:27:01

The last 24 hours of LNBIG (2023-03-03):
Amount transactions: 10181
The sum of transfered BTC: 19.80413689
Percentile 0%: 1 sats
Percentile 25%: 10000 sats
Percentile 50%: 47978 sats
Percentile 75%: 160001 sats
Percentile 95%: 930932 sats
Last 24 hours fee earning: 36196 sat (0.00036196 BTC)

2023-03-01 16:55:19

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https://www.deviantart.com/cyberpikachu/art/RAFFLE-ART-Zaptoshi-654199323
"Drew Zaptoshi's Pikachu OC for winning the Holiday Twitter Raffle held some weeks ago. Congratulations and I hope you like it! :-)"
Again Twitter... 😃

2023-03-01 16:49:09

Thanks for 21 zaptoshis!

2023-03-01 16:45:52

I propose to call zap's satoshis volleys as zaptoshi 😃
What do you think?

2023-03-01 16:44:33

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millzaptoshi :)

2023-03-01 16:43:58

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The Lightning protocol operates in millizatoshis. Including the LNURL (and NIP-57). But for some reasons unknown to me, the developers of LNURL solutions often ignore this and round it up to a thousand (1 sat). I patched the snort a little with my hands so that I could specify fractional parts. More than 90% of NIP-57 providers do not work, but the jp55 lightning address works with msats. And I sent to him 1/1000 of satoshi 😃

2023-03-01 16:37:15

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This real man supports the war and the terrorist state (russia). He also runs on a russian propaganda TV channels and participates in propaganda...

2023-02-28 19:54:03

GE 😄

2023-02-28 19:53:30

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_eba6dff76769743f98029e2d48431f3693ed5de6f3a51286bf76d82d1d8aeddf.png

2023-02-28 19:43:03

#[0] Verifying My Public Key: "lnbig_com"

2023-02-28 19:38:41

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NO!

2023-02-28 19:38:12

Milli-ZAP 😃
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_41942ff5b5ee6e78504e392cdfb28905bf8441b56eb4598ed503328bd52c43ea.png

2023-02-28 19:37:57

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Millizap 😃

2023-02-28 19:37:16

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_41942ff5b5ee6e78504e392cdfb28905bf8441b56eb4598ed503328bd52c43ea.png

2023-02-28 19:33:30

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Can you do that? 😃

2023-02-28 19:32:57

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_3685f7894d9b408745a769fab606abfd75bdfe4949cbc2c156a4bf7d1688537d.png
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_ac7eee35a9b5c81c74a45ae0f828c9eed89cd6cad9e2349bc6f1c897c147be19.png

2023-02-28 19:30:29

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Just zap sent 0.1 sat :)))

2023-02-28 15:52:33

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It seems to me that the best thing so far is for the client programs of Nostr to offer simple settings to go only through Tor, and in no other way. #[5] ?

2023-02-28 15:14:59

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We need Tor support from all clients. But then everything will load quite slowly. Perhaps the best solution is somewhere in the middle. For example, pictures from private messages are loaded via Tor, from a public feed is less dangerous, but it is also better to use some kind of proxy server.

2023-02-28 15:12:18

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This doesn't help in privacy :-/ Anybody will be able to know IP address anyway

2023-02-28 15:05:37

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Or another, simpler scenario. You are an oppositionist, and an undercover law enforcement officer sends you a personal message. You just go to watch, and your client (Android application or web version) automatically loads the image from the address specified in the message. Loads from the sender's server. And now your IP address is already known....

2023-02-28 14:56:21

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Just imagine that any oppositionist of the government has a Nostr account. In this case, it is enough for the authorities to put in Login his well-known key, go in and see all the keys (nostr accounts) of those who wrote to him personally in correspondence. Next, it is a matter of technique to calculate the IP addresses of those who wrote to him. Especially if you deploy a network of fake relays in order to collect data.

2023-02-28 14:52:57

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If anyone wants to personally check - go to https://snort.social/, click "Login" and specify any npub* key - you will see everything as the owner of the public key would see, except that you will not be able to read the text of personal correspondence with anyone. It's not very nice to find out about it ;-/

2023-02-28 14:46:12

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Given the specifics of Nostra, that it is impossible to delete data is even more dangerous. For example, you wrote to someone in private correspondence and anyone can then see with whom and when you corresponded. This is, in fact, public metadata in plain sight... I think in the future we will learn about more than one case when they were arrested for it (China, Russia, etc..)

2023-02-28 14:43:58

To be honest, I am concerned about the anonymity in Nostr. If you suddenly don't know, then when you view your account through the web version, then:
1) Every relay knows your referrer (site name)
2) Relay knows your IP address, and probably your npub (when there is a request to subscribe to a feed about a certain user - about you yourself)
Also, if you correspond with someone in a personal chat, everyone can find out with whom and how many messages (only they do not know the text of the correspondence). All this is quite dangerous for those who want to remain anonymous. For example, in totalitarian regimes it is very dangerous.

2023-02-28 14:38:42

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It has "yarn build" and does files for web. Something works, something doesn't work (for example paths in provate messages).
But i use now the "yarn start". It deploays web-server as backend and I use frontend the nginx

2023-02-28 14:34:04

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I deployed a copy from sources here too:
https://snort.lnbig.com/

2023-02-27 16:25:31

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Thank you!

2023-02-27 15:55:12

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Thank you!

2023-02-27 15:51:40

Thank you #[0] for NIP-05! Now it looks very cool!
https://i.imgur.com/WvsPO5A.jpg

2023-02-27 15:49:20