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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 17 Feb \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon
@DarthCoin, a long time ago I took your advice, closed channels in my node and kept only a few much bigger channels. I don't use it to encourage routing, just for my own needs. Yesterday a big player opened a big (for me) channel, and suddenly my node is routing like crazy. It's interesting, since I wonder if my few big channels look more attractive now since bitcoin's price has spiked.
Usually that spike in activity, is not real "routing" but just re-balancing (aka they are using your cheap routes).
As I always said: when a pleb want to start running a LN node, MUST answer himself the basic question: WHAT for am I running this public node?
Please pay attention to what I said in these guides:
- https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/managing-lightning-node-liquidity
- https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/private-lightning-nodes
- https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/recommendations-for-ln-users
Running a public routing node (even that you do not want to do pro routing, you are exposed to the public network) is a serious business and should NOT be done by not experienced plebs.
It is absolutely nothing wrong with running a private node (that do not do routing and is not exposed to the public).
But to answer punctually to your question: yes, opening bigger channels (for a public node), helps a lot. A minimum 5M sats/chan will increase your ranking. More small channels you have = less ranking you could have, is dragging you down.
IMHO the whole LN topology must be like this:
- high level public nodes, with big huge channels, well connected between.
- medium nodes, LSP with good connections to the high level nodes, and offering liquidity for private nodes.
- small pleb nodes, but good maintenance and good liquidity, NOT 100k / chan and To only....
- private nodes (like mobiles Zeus, Blixt, Mutiny, Breez, Electrum etc
But people still ignore my advice and use shity Tor only Pi nodes... but then complain why LN is not working well... What can I do more?