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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @NEEDcreations OP 18h \ parent \ on: I just opened a Lightning channel to SN. I like supporting the best LN services lightning
how can opening a channel do more harm than good? How can providing some inbound liquidity, tor or not, be negative? Please be specific because I've never heard that before
tor or not, be negative?
For a public routing node is very important the response time. Running over Tor is adding huge lag and unreliability. If you didn't know that until now, it means that you still have to learn a lot about running public routing nodes.
Inbound liquidity is not negative per se, but your node liquidity in total how is managed. In order to offer good routes, fees and enough liquidity, you need to study a lot the traffic with a peer, to see how much is moving during x period, how many txs, how much large are the HTLCs etc... and then open accordingly a good size of a channel based on those observations and apply the fees policies that could offer a good flow in and out through that channel.
Just because you opened a channel towards SN node it means nothing if you will not route too much through it. You've just badly allocate capital.
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I understand that, thank you. I'll be sure to update you on the routes My node makes to stacker News.
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you run a public routing node or a private one?
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I have public and private channels. The one I opened to SN is public
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