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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @nikotsla 10 Dec \ on: How much fees do you make? Should I scale up my small node? lightning
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