Here, hear! I started down the same path as you, trying to make a “profitable” lightning node, and eventually realized it’s not easily achieved.
Now I also just have less but bigger channels and keep my fees low. I also have a private node that has a private channel with my routing node, and all spends from the private node routes thru my routing node.
Good idea re private node. I think I'll do that too.
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Yea, not a bad idea for privacy if you have more than one 24/7 machine running. Remember to provide routing hints in your invoice when you’re receiving on your private node though, or else you’ll always get the no route error.
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Thanks for the heads up
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