PSA for Public node runners:

If you want to became some kind of "profitable node" listen to my advice:
  • run a very good node, with good connections, stable, not mobile
  • have large liquidity, I mean LARGE not joking with 1M sats channels
  • provide channels as LSP for private nodes like Zeus, Blixt, Mutiny and all others that can open channels to any node
  • provide good routing fees for private channels
  • yes, charge a fee to open a private channel, it is normal that, because we know that there are costs in maintaining private channels. Privacy is not free.
  • offer good timing to maintain those channels alive and not close them.
  • if you can offer swaps between LN-onchain that will be a plus
  • if you can offer inbound channels that will be a plus
  • take care of your private peers because they will be like your "secret" customers that will bring you a lot of traffic.
More private LSPs = more decentralized LN You don't have to be a real public LSP, is enough to be for your friends and family.
YOU WILL REMEMBER MY WORDS
Clear net or tor?
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Tor is only for watching porn not for running public routing nodes.
Darth, what do you think the life expectancy of a channel is? You must have seen more bad ones close than good ones survive, right?
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Well, I've noticed channels having reachability problems so there's that too.
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