Routing yield is a hoax. #498580

Some nodes in non-replicable positions, based on their affiliation or proximity to a service and scale do so, but those are the exception. Routing isn't a business, its an extension of a business.

Routing fees in Lightning are simply to make the system work, it is 0 sum... your fees earned offset fees paid.

As a permissionless system that anyone can enter, your dumb capital has no advantage... you'll be blindly hoping to arb something opaque.

So instead of buying a product claiming to give you magic data to direct your dumb and entirely un-special capital, OFFER a product which attracts throughput on your node, the routing fees can then extend your margins on that. Maybe that product is a loss leader in and of itself designed just to generate routing traffic.

Other posts in which I've spoken to this:

#798173 #930434 #498645