cofounder/ceo @umbrel (we’re hiring) • building a home cloud to put your data back in your hands
Oct 29, 2021 • 11 tweets • 8 min read
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There is no cloud. It's just someone else's computer. As people de-cloud over this decade, personal servers will become as ubiquitous as internet routers.
I'm thrilled to announce that @getumbrel has raised $3M to bring the power back to people. 🎉
Personal computer revolution shifted computing from rooms full of computers owned by corporations to personal computers owned by people.
Personal server revolution is shifting computing from rooms full of servers owned by corporations to personal servers owned by people.
Oct 15, 2021 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Wow. Ok. So we ran some numbers to estimate @getumbrel’s usage and compare it with Lightning Network's growth, and the results just blew us away!
9 out of 10 Lightning nodes launched over last year run on Umbrel — which is about half of the entire Lightning Network today 🤯
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There are ~13K Umbrel servers and ~28K Lightning Network nodes as of today.
Umbrel users account for almost half of all Lightning nodes, and things get more interesting when you compare new Lightning nodes and Umbrel servers over the last year — they're nearly the same line!
