Im learning some lessons are more expensive than other :)
Mining is part of bitcoin and I want to discover all I can to get the best understanding.

thanks I was looking exactly for such suggestions / improvements.

🤣🤣🤣 that was a good joke, who knows if the domain still exists in like 10-15 years, Its more: the adults will have to educate like in every way of life with children.

who will be sending the child bitcoin and will have access to the public address? The family so I doubt :
family will map the transactions and cause a wrench attack :D
Also if bitcoin does not drop back to like 10 bucks then on this card there will be never to much bitcoin ( like full coins).

Based on my current knowledge address reuse is a concern if its going In / Out , In / Out ... but in this case its going only IN so shouldn't be an issue. Hopefully when the kids reach a certain age they scratch the back and move everything out and never again use the card itself.

I bought a bunch of those foils from aliexpress its called "SCRATCH OFF Stickers" its self adhesive and you just put it on.

maybe for smaller nodes (with few channels) but from a certain point opening new channels does not affect the number of transactions so much.
Now Im trying to find peers that improve my position in the network so I can get to more nodes with less hops. And when I find such nodes Im looking at the fees they have for example from the below picture coingate improves my hop rate and they have low fees so its highly possible to route through them. But if I find a node that has a flat rate of 1000ppm thats a no go.

Right now Im trying to move toward 5-10m / channel. And avoid opening anything below 2m.

Yes lightningnetwork.plus is also great and I did used it. all those sites are for something else :) so its not about comparing them its like when you are cooking and have a recipe with ingredients you don't compare them but you "need" all of them :)

Hi Mate, small channels don't make to much sense believe me (I was starting like you but now Im moving away from those channels below 1.000.000 sats even this number is not enough). Don't make mistakes people did before you :)
And as a new node operator your best friends will be sites like for choosing new peers, buying inbound liquidity analysing who to connect to what fees to set... :
https://amboss.space/
https://lnplatby.com

Of course the large operators are on the list but you can see also a lot of individuals if it interests you here is the list:

Alias Počet kanálov
ACINQ 1962
1ML.com node ALPHA 1772
CoinGate 1309
Kraken 🐙⚡ 1232
WalletOfSatoshi.com 1166
LNT.Thailand 1076
LNT.chengdu 911
bfx-lnd0 680
Boltz 662
nicehash-ln1 659
block-iad-1 646
bfx-lnd1 618
kappa 583
LQwD-Canada 549
okx 509
Sunny Sarah ☀️ 486
gameb_1 452
BCash_Is_Trash 423
🇨🇭Vix18 331
Strike 318
lnmarkets.com 315
CoinPayments 286
cyberdyne.sh 276
LNBiG [Hub-1] 249
node8153 249
Babylon-4a 241
allNice | torq.co | second.tech 241
xmrk reloaded 226
ln.bitstamp.net [Bitstamp] 226
Garlic🧄 224
Boltz|CLN 224
ln-1.anycoin.cz 219
1sats.com⚡️lsp.flashsats.xyz 218
Megalithic.me 216
WCC-BOUNCER 214
MUTATRUM 205
🛡 Don Quixote Bank 🚩 204
tokyo 194
LQwD-Japan 193
8DegreesWO 189
Authenticity 185
stacker.news 184
fixedfloat.com 184
Kazumyon 180
Megalith LSP 180
Corn🌽Gosumi🦔 178
LightningNetworkLiquidity 177
BTC_👽👽👽👽👽👽 176
Lightning.Store 175
LQWD-England 175
VIVA 174
033769 💚 🌽 💚 173
Play-asia.com 169
adam.masterofpearls.net 169
LNBiG [Hub-2] 162
Julia⚡️LND01 161
The Continental 160
Open_Hand 158
illTryAnythingOnce 157
MOLA 156
LifeIsGood 153
routing.blinkbtc.com 153
298906458 151
🚀🌑 BOLTENING.club 147
02d246c519 146
LNServer_Wave 146
LQWD-Australia 144
God Bless ₿itcoin 144
Binance 143
e960fd8385a1603003727 143
LNBiG [Hub-3] 140
Azteco 139
Lucky.Dog 138
IBEX_Ops1 138
Volarte⚡ 136
flashsats.xyz 135
Start9 HQ 135
HODLmeTight 132
LN-Fukaya Japan 132
034a5fdb2d 131
lndnode08 131
Moon (paywithmoon.com) 131
ed528ad49bedd1f7a638a 130
LNBiG [Edge-4] 128
hashrelay.com 128
📡SatLink⚡ 126
LNBiG [Edge-3] 125
Uncle Jims Node 124
Fedi us-east-1 [fedi.xyz] 124
Astrea 121
T🌮CO 121
bxm 121
LQWD-France 119
⚡G-Spot-21_69_420⚡ 118
02dfe525d9c5b4bb52a5 118
022d738905 118
020fccc560 116
BavarianBitcoinBank 115
pedroLND 114
Tallship.Capital ⛵️ 114
Sally Acorn 113
N21 113
BIG 113
Clack Bank 111
schulzemic [LND] 111
SilentBob 111
The Captain [Coincept.com] 111
Voltage 110
AgX🗲 110
BTC Nigeria 108
CryptoChill 108
100% Uptime Reliable Routing 106
yalls.org clearnet-yalls 106
Podcast Index 104
BitcoinVN 22 104
BitcoinIsFreedom 102
Medium of Exchange 101
0217ab1f3781f806c702 101
PeerName.com 98
ThunderHorse2 96
LQwD-Sweden 95
Denaro Libre 🌞 95
031015a7839468a3c 94
Friendspool | BR⚡LN 94
ovmotseq 94
LNServerFocus 93
Nodelou🐈 93
TennisNbtc 93
heliacal 93
satsquares 93
Rust-eze (now BoltTrustiC) 91
21000000🌽 91
betheball 91
BitMEX 90
⚡👻ghostpdh🀄CA 90
slicksparks.ky 89
Orange Sunrise 89
🐝BeeHiveV3⚡ 87
LOUDTOLL since 2019 87
node01.fulmo.org 87
cwallet.com 86
RA⚡️KO 86
ln1.generalbytes.com 86
lndnode 86
Shockwave Rider 85
HydraNode 85
HOPPINGSQUIRREL 85
Bee Tee See 85
LNBiG [Edge-1] 84
connect-to-this-node-please 84
speedupln.com 84
IBEX_Routing 83
⚡️MasterYoda⚡ 83
020d3d5995 83
Nightfort 81
Edelweiss🏔️ 81
03ce15213f 80
RecklessApotheosis 80
Absolem 80
node on the boat⛵ 80

<script>alert(LDK);</script> 79

LighToshi.node 79
Common Bridge 79
LOOP 79
LV-426 🌌 78
QrypticDolt 78
LNBiG [Edge-2] 77
CentralWankers_CLN 77
AngSianLND 77
Lightning.Watch 75
Zap-O-Matic 75
Bifurcation🗲Point 74
NikolaTesla 74
The Bitcoin Company 74
The Wall 74
024bd94f04 73
LightningCoins⚡ 72
HowlerNode 72
AF_reload 72
UmbrelReach 72
OpenNode.com 2 72
Olympus by ZEUS 71
ln.solid 71
03cbf298b0 70
Lohkotek 1 70
SpookyPaymentAtADistance 70
rompert.hashposition.com🔵 70
BitcoinVoucher.Bot 70
Shire_Society_Federation 68
carrot 68
PurpleWisteria 68
Corn🌽Agit 68
Einundzwanzig 67
⚡WΔRDEN ⚡ 67
⚡RBlitzOne⚡ 67
hqq 67
ln02.bixin.com 66
⚡Corn🌽Columbo⚡ 66
aybabtu 66
EddiesDad 66
Goblin⚡Node 66
OpenNode.com 1 65
Hermes⚡Conrad 65
cicekdagi 65
BitcoinJungleCR 65
028c1f8d90 65
🍊 ∞/21M ⛏️ 65
NullR 64
038a834010 64
SlowTortoise 63
Amboss.Space 63
Infotron 63
Nodebrook⚡💊 63
Bank The Planet 63
Corn🌽Sabok 63
Skyweir 62
038fe3c921 62
🐱 sonero 🐱 62
Harry Potter [node]⚡️ 62
HanzoNode 🐶 62
LightTheClassic 62
funklnd 62
Blixt Wallet 🟡 62
GloBee.com 62
🪖BornToRunKnotdes🪢 61
WarsoWerk.de 60
Satbase.org 60
antistate 60
ArthurReilly 60
St_Paul | BR⚡️LN 60
Colusa 59
TheLND.com 59
albatross 59
hodlister_co 59
Girinos LND Node 59
Privacy is not a Crime🐧 59
MAGNUS 58
Copper 58
Þrymheimr 58
LQWD-India 58
ChurchOfBitcoin 58
ln.mtpelerin.com 58
OrangeWhisper|CLN 57
derHerbert🐈 57
Die-Tor-Node 57
HappySpork 57
Luna 57
🏛TempleOfSats-Reborn🏛 57
Deenmo 電母 57
🎭Mask🌽 56
lightning 56
Enigmafi 56
02e39085e6eb7ee00b13 56
Megalithic.me [small channels] 56
E-PARA.NET 56
03c7cad7e4 55
YTMND 55
Royalty⚡️Finance 55
LNShortcut.ovh 55
lndus0.zaphq.io 55
YOLOSpirit ✌️💓🌟🚯 55
StormFront 54
rockshouse 54
BTC_USA 54
♥ 53
Relatively Irrelevant 53
ORANGEIRON 53
HyperSpace⚡Saigon 53
PaulsCode LND 53
hub-lnd-gar-nodl-it 53
Unwetter 53
littleAlice ☇ 52
038d108e6c 52
balbyBTCnode 52
GeldBoerse 52
pi.hub 52
Aldebaran 52
Paraguay_node 52
LQWD-Singapore 52
ochra ...🦉 52
DorianIsMySatoshi 52

I agree now with all you wrote.

But initially I had a different opinion, I thought that worldwide there would be much more bitcoin maxies / geeks who are also running their nodes.

Thanks for the nice feedback now for your notes
Just current snapshot,
I would say with ability to set inbound fees not just outbound we eliminate a lot of rebalancing (just not many node operators are using this feature yet)
but I agree with you that there are different peers some send more and some drain more and the matrix is just one piece of the puzzle.
Unfortunately this are the public data we can work with (if you have any idea let me know).
and same as in my previous comment if you register and tell me your node public key I give you some free usage time.

thanks for the suggestion, just added it. and if you register and tell me your node public key I will grant you some free usage :)

its not just going back to fiat somebody might have USD in blink wallet and want to swap to BTC but for a better rate and instead of sitting on the phone and checking the right time just run the script and it does for you.