120 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr OP 15 Jul 2022 \ parent \ on: Best LN Liquidity Marketplaces bitcoin
appreciate the thoughtful response. how can you tell that lnbig has an inbound shortage?
also, you’re right that magma has deployed more by. than pool this month, but ln+ has deployed more btc this month than both combined.
ln+ has a different system of getting liquidity though, i believe most of their vol is through triangle or square “swaps” rather than direct purchase. does this matter for a routing node?
I was running some rudimentary probing thru LNbig a couple weeks back, no hard numbers but inbound shortage is v apparent. You can see this in the difficulty it can take in trying to rebalance lnbig channels
Yes I'd classify LN+ seperately, no actual buying/selling occurs there atm. Swaps are essentially "I'll open a channel to Bob if Alice opens a channel to me" -- it is not a very selective process and the 'quality' of peers highly varies, you basically open a chan to random peer and receive a random chan in return. Some swap peers are great, some are bad. Contrast that to Magma where you may be selective in your peer or to Pool which uses an internal scoring system
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