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Learning and aiding the lightning network are the main goals.
What I'm aiming for is the lowest fee rates that keep my channels balanced. I don't really care about profitability. I'm never going to deploy so much bitcoin to this node that the profits make much difference to me.
What do you mean by fees paid to maintain this routing? Is that the fees to open the channels or something else?
yes opening/closing/leasing. You said that you do not do rebalancing on purpose, but closing channels could happen.
Gotcha. I haven't opened, closed, or leased any channels during this period, but obviously I paid to open the channels initially.
I don't recall what those initial fees were (I'd have to look through the funding transactions, right?) but I also don't know how much I earned in fees before the Alby update that reported these things.
Tell us also how much in fees YOU PAID to maintain this routing.
I agree, is not really necessary to do rebalancing (so pay fees) and just let the routing do it on itself, by adjusting the routing fees. I've done that too, also together with applying the "valve system" and it works pretty nice. Yes indeed require some manual attention but is doable.
The point is to have in time an almost "balanced" cashflow, otherwise is much easier to earn sats with memes :)
I am not saying that the "profit" for running a LN node must come in the 1st year, but the runner must do his math and mark goals. Is quite hard to predict the fees in the future.
So what is your goal with this routing node? Learning ?