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804 sats \ 23 comments \ @Undisciplined 21h lightning

In a recent update, @Alby made it very easy to view your aggregate routing data and I've really enjoyed checking in on it from time to time.

Here's how my little routing node has done since that update:

Sats routed: 17.6M
Transactions routed: 1.6k
Routing fees earned: 2.4k sats

I'm pretty consistently averaging about 10k sat routed transactions at a fee of around 1.5 sats.

I know there are likely other nodes in many of these transactions, but that's still a crazy cheap financial service.

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63 sats \ 5 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 21h

Where does one see this?

100 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 21h

At the bottom of the home page in "stats for nerds"

92 sats \ 1 reply \ @PictureRoom 17h

NIce, i've earned 7 sats lol

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 17h

Most of mine seem to come from my channel with coinos

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 20h

Cool! I don’t use mine for routing so it’s not as interesting

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 20h

I'm not really trying to earn sats by routing, but I was interested in trying to use routing fees to keep my channels balanced.

Mixed success so far

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 15h

Do you do any channel management or just let it run?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 15h

Pretty minimal

I have a very simple adjustment pattern that I use when I see significant routing activity and I've opened a few channels when my overall inbound/outbound liquidity got unbalanced.

42 sats \ 10 replies \ @BeeRye 20h

does alby hub provide some sort of automatic fee updating to encourage traffic ? like lightning terminal

55 sats \ 9 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 20h

I don't think so. Until very recently, they discouraged people from using their Alby Hubs for routing.

I suspect they'll offer something like that soon though.

42 sats \ 8 replies \ @BeeRye 20h

im a big fan of the LDK lightnode...I love that it comes with a on-chain 12 word seed phrase so you can use it for lots of things (obviously I only have some spending money in that wallet). similar to how one could use electrum wallet for opening lightning channels but instead using the LDK lightnode on my start9...lightning node is on all the time.

0 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 19h

I'm sure there are better setups for this.

I basically defaulted into Alby Hub when they transitioned everyone away from GetAlby and so much of my online stuff was connected to that.

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 11h

Coinos is good.

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @BeeRye 10h

i want control of my keys

55 sats \ 4 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 10h

Yes, do that for your L1 sats for sure but with LN, not so much is at stake.

The convenience and very low fees of Coinos are hard to beat.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @BeeRye 10h

it is true, however i have 3 small balanced private channels on my albyhub lightnode, fees are basically zero for sends, and i can receive no problem. So, with a little work up front there is no need to give up my keys.

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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 19h

Coinos is even lower cost to use. And easier. Especially for use on SNs as most small transactions on Coinos are fees free.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @supratic 8h

Running a node with AlbyHub has noting to do with, and is far away comparable with what you suggest.

Coinos charges a percentage of the transaction on top of the network fees.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Solomonsatoshi 8h

Nonsense- Coinos charges nothing at all on most lower value transactions.

I sent 1666 sats the other day- Zero fees and zero percentage deducted.

Stop spreading lies.

'Amount 1,666 $3.52 Network fee 0 $0.00 Exchange rate 1 Bitcoin = $211,026 474 = $1'

Note- My wallet set to New Zealand dollars.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @supratic 2h

Do you know why it charged zero fees?

If not, start reading the Lightning Network for Dummies, then we talk.