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No such thing as a passive public routing node it seems
I've explained in this guide main differences between public and private nodes.
https://darth-coin.github.io/nodes/private-ln-nodes-en.html
"passive public" cannot exist. If you do not want to route others payments, why are you staying IN THE PUBLIC anyways? Just open private channels and everything is just fine.
Every node runner has a dream of routing millions of BTC and earning fees and being part of something that bigger than themselves.
I think this could have been a possibility if the early pleb nodes were forced to be Tor nodes.
Now it seems you need to dedicate a lot of time to be competitive in the landscape of public routing
And here is where dreams die hard
In 2019-2020 it was a massive desire to run a LN node from many people. But they had no idea what that imply.
IMHO was a mistake to push many people into this.
That's why I jump into the support groups and start helping them.
For about 2 years I was like 24/7 support for Umbrel users. But I got tired explaining to pkebs that they are doing it wrong. No matter jow many guides I wrote and instructions given the bottleneck was always the tor nodes poorly managed.
That's why nowaday LN is not seen as being reliable. People got a wrong idea about what is LN and mostly because of their own mistakes.
And this is how this meme was born
I've wrote some:
Please pay attention to what I've said in there. Running a public node is not a joke, is a very serious business, not just for yourself, but for the entire network. All nodes depend on how reliable service you can offer. And there's a lot of challenge between players. You do not open channels with friends like friends on Facebook. You are literally trying to "steal customers" from another router, by offering better services. And you need to have the best peers not shity "pleb nodes". You also have to look and know where and from where the sats flow is coming so you could be in the middle.
And how you are going to compete against the best routers when your node is running on fucking slow network like Tor and also limit your "customers" on Tor only ?
Just think about that. LN is a capital allocation game and only the best wins.
I don't want to scare you to not run a public node. Do it if you have balls, but run it properly if you really want it and know what are you doing. I am just warning you as many others that is a lot of involvement if you start it.