IMO, it's better to stay away from nodes thing. I consider myself a normie.
I learnt a lot, and, to be honest, I think I contributed a lot in the beginning, when this was an incipient technology with my 8 BTC liquidity. At some point I was on top 100 of nodes. Not anymore, of course. But that means LN is being taken care of by the people who really needs it.
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Thanks for being a strong early adopter and supporter of the network. What would have to change to get you to run an LN node again?
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Sincerely, I don't think I'm going to run a node again unless something very bad happens to the network and more nodes are needed urgently.
Another good reason would be to simplify and make more reliable the process of maintaining a node, but we are probably years ahead of this.
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