raspibolt VS charge-lnd

For those interested in setting up a their own lightning node, check out Raspibolt, Umbrel, Plebnet .

That said, the benefits of using and understanding lnd directly are huge. I strongly recommend the raspibolt tutorial to anybody who is willing to learn to run a simple linux system via command line.

So overall I recommend you to start from the scratch using at least a 1TByte SSD, better 2. And either follow https://raspibolt.org/ for full sovereignty. Or if that seems too difficult for you look into https://raspiblitz.org/.

If you want an actual guide with a lot of the bells and whistles explained I recommend https://raspibolt.org/

The main sources of information to build my full node are Ministry Of Nodes’ video tutorials on YouTube and the incredible RaspiBolt guide. Both have been very useful to get me started in this beautiful project, but I faced some issues every now and then due to the fact that I was dealing with newer versions of the apps and things didn’t work out of the box all the time so I had to RTFM here and there.

and then follow the instructions from https://github.com/accumulator/charge-lnd/blob/master/INSTALL.md

I use charge-lnd to automatically rebalance by channels via fees. My charge.config is heavily inspired (stolen) by this article.

I use charge-lnd to adjust fees proportionally to the channel state encouraging outflow if most the sats are on my side, and discouraging further outflow if most sats are already on the peer side.

charge-lnd v0.2.13 (Released: 23th November 2022) - https://github.com/accumulator/charge-lnd/releases

for LND, https://github.com/accumulator/charge-lnd can be configured to do this.

Charge-lnd v0.2.11 - Release page- Upgrade guide add sum_peer_chans to proportional strategy to consider multiple channels to the same peer; docker: proper fallback for tls cert when TLS_CERT_PATH is empty string; allow using variables in config files; improve robustness w.r.t commas and whitespace in chan/node list files

charge-lnd v0.2.9 - Release page - Upgrade guide don't match channels on activity_period criteria if the channel is younger than the activity_period; add command parameters --tlscert and --macaroon; support SSL for electrum servers; fix error in fallback when a strategy returns an error

I made a bit more than OP on fees using my node, since I discovered charge-lnd to automate fees, see https://github.com/accumulator/charge-lnd and also do your research and open good channels to good routing nodes :)