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1019 sats \ 3 replies \ @south_korea_ln 31 Dec 2023 \ parent \ on: Dissection of a force-close that already cost me 140k sats lightning
There is a huge difference between running a routing node and just running your node to plug into the rest of the network. The former is indeed more demanding, I think the latter is still very doable for a plebs.
I ran a pretty profitable node more than a year ago, even though I am not that technical. But back then, mistakes were not that costly... so in the current environment, I agree that you better know your shit, or that you learn quickly from your mistakes.
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The tools are getting better. I don't like the current ordinal and other shitcoining on Bitcoin, but the high fees are pushing people to be more mindful and hopefully, some other much-needed improvements will be accelerated because of this.
When I left, channel management could already mostly be automated using tools such as LNDg. So, once channel stability, stuck HTLCs, force closes, etc gets less likely, I believe things will again be possible for amateurs, even if the big routing nodes will always have an edge, just because disposable liquidity is key after all.
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