First thing to consider is who do you actually pay, whomever you pay most often should be your first channel assuming they run a real node. No routing fees that way, faster more reliable payments, keeps the network just as decentralized as the businesses that use it.
I needed to add some outbound last week with a big CLN peer still down, obvious next peer to add was SN's node. That's already paid for itself.
I'm surprised LN implementations still don't use payment history as a heuristic in their autopilot functionality. Ofc need to combine with an uptime monitor, but thats generally already considered. This would be one heuristic true to the decentralized nature of the network. Adding this to the Pub hit list.
First thing to consider is who do you actually pay, whomever you pay most often should be your first channel assuming they run a real node. No routing fees that way, faster more reliable payments, keeps the network just as decentralized as the businesses that use it.
I needed to add some outbound last week with a big CLN peer still down, obvious next peer to add was SN's node. That's already paid for itself.
I'm surprised LN implementations still don't use payment history as a heuristic in their autopilot functionality. Ofc need to combine with an uptime monitor, but thats generally already considered. This would be one heuristic true to the decentralized nature of the network. Adding this to the Pub hit list.