cycle 2. Stage 2, day 17:
I have made some progress since last entry but I am not done yet. Yesterday and today have seemed like slow days to me. Yesterday, I did stumble on a difficulty that got me blocked. I was not finding a solution for the issue so I decided to sleep on it. This morning, a solution did pop up in my mind as if I did work on it all night.
I got distracted today with the new idea to perhaps run a Bitcoin Lightning network node. I have a server that I am far from using to its full capacity.
The prerequisite for operating a Lightning network node is to also run a bitcoin full node... I got surprised by the current blockchain size that has now surpassed 400GB... I don't have enough disk space to run that today.
I am still learning about linux machine management. I am kinda stuck with my current setup which is configured as a single ext4 partition on top of a software RAID1 setup made of 2 480GB SSD. If it was to be redone, I would add LVM to the mix and I am also considering replacing EXT4 partitions to give BTRFS a go. BTRFS appears to be really nice with the option to compress files on the go.
I kinda have found a solution. The hosting company is offering to install free of charge a 3rd 500GB HDD to my server. This little guy, partionned as a compressed BTRFS is going to become my dedicated mount just for holding the BTC blockchain... With compression, this should last for some time...
Beside that, I am approaching another important milestone. I was expecting it to happen today but maybe sometime during next night. I must be about $13K away from reaching a monthly trading volume of a million...
So while I am busy refactoring my code base, the latest server build has been running nonstop for possibly at least a week without any problems. Things are finally working fine...
Reaching the million dollar trade volume might bring something nice. Fiat pairs trading becomes free of fee at this volume. I expect this event to maybe unlock new arbitrage opportunities...
things are going nicely. I just feel like the time is passing way too fast. I am not seeing the days go by...
I have made some progress since last entry but I am not done yet. Yesterday and today have seemed like slow days to me. Yesterday, I did stumble on a difficulty that got me blocked. I was not finding a solution for the issue so I decided to sleep on it. This morning, a solution did pop up in my mind as if I did work on it all night.
I got distracted today with the new idea to perhaps run a Bitcoin Lightning network node. I have a server that I am far from using to its full capacity.
The prerequisite for operating a Lightning network node is to also run a bitcoin full node... I got surprised by the current blockchain size that has now surpassed 400GB... I don't have enough disk space to run that today.
I am still learning about linux machine management. I am kinda stuck with my current setup which is configured as a single ext4 partition on top of a software RAID1 setup made of 2 480GB SSD. If it was to be redone, I would add LVM to the mix and I am also considering replacing EXT4 partitions to give BTRFS a go. BTRFS appears to be really nice with the option to compress files on the go.
I kinda have found a solution. The hosting company is offering to install free of charge a 3rd 500GB HDD to my server. This little guy, partionned as a compressed BTRFS is going to become my dedicated mount just for holding the BTC blockchain... With compression, this should last for some time...
Beside that, I am approaching another important milestone. I was expecting it to happen today but maybe sometime during next night. I must be about $13K away from reaching a monthly trading volume of a million...
So while I am busy refactoring my code base, the latest server build has been running nonstop for possibly at least a week without any problems. Things are finally working fine...
Reaching the million dollar trade volume might bring something nice. Fiat pairs trading becomes free of fee at this volume. I expect this event to maybe unlock new arbitrage opportunities...
things are going nicely. I just feel like the time is passing way too fast. I am not seeing the days go by...
