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How much fees do you make? Should I scale up my small node?
216 sats \ 4 comments \ @06bc1a977d 9 Dec lightning
Hey Community
I'm on my second attempt on running a lightning node. Currently it runs on around 6M sats capacity from my side. To become "profitable" I only factor in electricity costs currently (which is wrong, I know) and that amounts to 100 sats per day. I BARELY reach that target, but I wondered if there are some steps I can take to up my game a bit, like adding more liquidity (which always works).
I would be happy if you would tell me how much you earn, but I guess that's a lot to ask. I'd even be thankful for some percentages, as I am wondering if I'm doing something wrong. Most days are without any reroutes. I have 5 channels and route every 5 days it seems.
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @nikotsla 13h
From my point of view, "capital" is the key feature for a routing LN at this stage, even for a shitty Tor node. I am talking about a lot of capital, with 10BTC or more you could do what ever you want, easy.
  • Open/Close channels to Loop/fixedfloat/okx/bfx (2k/3k ppm)
  • Open channels to wallets (500ppm)
  • Suck liquidity for smaller nodes
That's the setup that almost any "profitable" node is doing, look into the close/open channel and you will see a pattern. We are not in the stage when we see real traffic, those exchanges are the ones that pull or push liquidity.
Can you do a better job with less capital, yes... but you are going to play with the 5% of what is in your control, the 95% is in your capital.
If you want to learn, it's ok to setup a routing LN but read @DarthCoin guides, maybe you don't need or want routing node.
You can search here a lot of guides and examples of noderunners to learn from, I can't find the guide that explain how to setup a node with 0.5BTC, it was a good one.
Don't expect to be profitable, maybe you can for a couple of months but the risk is high.
If you node is Antariksh ... you have a lot of work to do.
My2sats
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nikotsla 13h
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69 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 9 Dec
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 9 Dec
My first guess was also that the fees are too high.
What I’ve seen is that some channels can support high fees but most can’t.
I regularly tweak my fees to be lower on the full channels and higher on the empty ones. It’s increased my routing volume dramatically (which is my goal).
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