21 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 26 Feb 2023 \ on: What is the income of your LN routing fees? bitcoin
I have been running a node for over a year and it does not generate income at all, if you define income as profit. Even though I think I have gotten better at managing my node over time, it does less volume and earns lower fees than it did when bitcoin was trading at more than 50k. That's just my experience. I'm not in it for profit. I just want to run a decent node.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @handsome_latino OP 26 Feb 2023
Sorry, by income I meant how many sats you ended up earning as a fee. Funny enough I also wrote I am not looking to make a profit ;)
The challenge of going from routing 1 sat / m to 100 sats / m is a fun challenge for a person who has too much time on their hands!
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 26 Feb 2023
Sorry for the misunderstanding. You have me thinking about it more. Early on I set up LNDg to balance channels and some of my fees got pretty high. I would occasionally get a 200-300 sat route. Those days are over. I read @DarthCoin's guides and made some changes. I was running LND over tor, but now I run hybrid umbrel with tailscale. I also switched to zero fee base routing, and cut my channel count, reducing quantity and increasing capacity of each channel. Now I have a lot of routes where I earn nothing, but typically earn 100-250 sats a day on average. Sorry for the long winded response.
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