63 sats \ 12 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 6 Mar \ on: 🗲 The Lightning Power List: - A Ranking Of "Entities" On The Lightning Network lightning
Looking good! Any way to incorporate the node reputation?
The concept of entities vs. nodes is (I think) very confusing for newbies when they try to understand the Lightning Network. So we're actually (so far) trying to "abstract away" the idea of "nodes" -- You can see the top of the list is LnBig, and we just note the number of channels.... We don't expose the individual nodes in the interface yet. (Maybe we should do that....).....
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It is a good idea.
@megalithic, let me know if you would like to add additional node attributes to show in your page. I'm create a lot of attributes based on capacity/channel and LN graph.
I've started work on grouping nodes based on type - exchange, routing, LSP. let me know if you would like to share notes there
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I'm not familiar with the concept of 'entities'. Transparency is always the best way forward. Is there any other website that does what you are doing?
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There might be a better word than "entities" -- maybe we could say "owners". The point is, who actually owns and runs the node or a group of related nodes.....
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Can you find out who owns the nodes of those running in Amazon data centers, for example?
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We're only trying to identify "entities" or "owners" of nodes who are making some attempt to publicly identify themselves. We're not trying to "out" node operators who are trying to stay anonymous.
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😅 Of course! Just out of curiosity, do you know the ratio of anonymous to known entities?
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here it is:
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I think that would be impossible to determine without somehow counting the number of entities or owners of all the "little" nodes -- which itself would likely be impossible.....
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You can see the "ranking criteria" at the bottom of the page... which sort of explains the thinking... https://megalith.apezdev.com/power_list
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We're also trying a very human "editorial" approach where we actually did some research and wrote some commentary on each entity -- again, we are aiming for something that can be grokked by someone new to the Lightning Network. I think that newbies look at something like 1ML or Amboss, and they are just overwhelmed by the complexity....
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