"running a profitable LN node is probably extremely hard"
Indeed, in my point of view almost 90% of traffic is exchange related, no real human P2P business move the needle, so in that context:
Lot of capital! like... a lot! 1BTC is too little.
Clearnet
Good hardware, failover
I saw this many time in the wild:
3k ppm (minimum)
Open/Close to LOOP
Open/Close any exchange
Done, you are running a profitable node at 10% (yield) and need one year to recover the hardware cost, the risk... big (force close/hadware failure/bugs).
"running a profitable LN node is probably extremely hard"
Indeed, in my point of view almost 90% of traffic is exchange related, no real human P2P business move the needle, so in that context:
I saw this many time in the wild:
Done, you are running a profitable node at 10% (yield) and need one year to recover the hardware cost, the risk... big (force close/hadware failure/bugs).