Do they just route lightning Bitcoin for living?
They
[do not say much about themselves][1]
. Taking into account only onion services, their node has[the second largest capacity][2]
after ACINQ's node.[1]: https://lnbig.com/#/about
[2]: https://1ml.com/node?order=capacity&iponionservice=true
Yeah, I was looking at them today considering opening a channel. It's a little too rich for my blood, and I can't find any cheaper channels elsewhere. Ideally, I'd like to spend two or three bucks, which is about what it was in 2021. I dunno if anything like that is still around now or not. It's mostly just for my own satisfaction at the moment anyway.
A couple of days ago I opened my second private channel to
[ACINQ][1]
. I chose ACINQ because LNBIG rejected my request to connect with them over TOR. Recently I about paid 670000 sats to somebody and the fee amounted to 0.1% of the amount. From your experience, is LNBIG more expensive?[1]: https://1ml.com/node/03864ef025fde8fb587d989186ce6a4a186895ee44a926bfc370e2c366597a3f8f
From what I understand, LNBIG is generally more expensive.