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Does having your own lightning node help the community?

falcoonbr

>there's 3 kinds of nodes:

4. Private nodes

>Does having your own lightning node help the community?

Depends of your hardware, capital in LN channels, knowledge about managing a routing node. Is not so easy as many think.

Please read my guides exactly about these aspects:
- https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/recommendations-for-ln-users
- https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/lightning-node-maintenance
- https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/lightning-routing-fees-experiment
- https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/private-lightning-nodes
- https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/getting-started-ln

And if you really want to help the community consider running a scenario like this one:
- https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/bitcoin-private-banks-over-lightning
- https://github.com/Darth-Coin/Poncho-OBW-testing