Good Peers

Nodes peering is like dancing. With some partners dancing is fun, you are in sync, communicate well and dance all night long - with others it is just not a great match and the dance is a short one.

If you want to open a channel with Orville I ask that you try to be a good dancer - a good peer, and I will try to do the same. Here are some hints regarding what I would consider a good peer for Orville:

- Be contactable. Post a twitter/telegram/email to Amboss, so I can contact you in case of problems with our channel.

- Orville is a small node. Open a channel of suitable size (2.5-5 M) I have channels larger than that, but those peers I typically curated carefully. If you are a node with less than 100 channels and our relationship is new, don’t go over 5M. Unless you are Loop :-).

- Rebalance responsibly. Orville uses LNDg. I aim to rebalance so that I get fewer failed routings. Opening to LOOP creates a nice flow, but If you rebalance aggressively to feed sats to multiple LOOP channels, then we are not a good match. If our channel is constantly jammed with many outgoing rebalancing HTLCs from your node that do not become routings, then I will close the channel to prevent force closings with other peers.

- Zero base fee is awesome!

Lastly: Orville is a small Pleb node run on a Raspberry Pi. From time to time I restart my Umbrel or have an Internet outage, I am not perfect. But I check my node daily and when outages happen I do my best to get the node up and running again to prevent force closings and I am open to communicate with my peers. Plebs help each other. Plebs Unite. Happy routing!