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31 sats \ 3 replies \ @C_Otto 2 Aug 2022 \ parent \ on: Hello! Pierre Rochard, VP of Research at Riot. AMA. bitcoin
..., liquidity allocation, peer selection, hardware resource usage, private channels, offline peers, tor connectivity issues, ...
- Putting more capacity towards peers that "prove" themselves great routers, closing channels that are "unproductive".
- Running experiments with peer selection, especially using betweenness centrality measures.
- Hardware resource usage is negligible, personally I had a node with hundreds of channel on a retail i5 laptop. Any mid-range server could probably do thousands of channels.
- Private channels can be expensive for a routing node to have, I think they're really best for full-fledged LSPs who are charging the end-user wallet for the private channel.
- IMO a day offline is too long, close the channel.
- I think it would make sense to have both a clearnet and a tor node.
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When we're already at it ... I would like to hear Pierre Rochards thoughts on fractional banking in custodial Lightning nodes. Spicy topic, I know.
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Not your keys, not your bitcoin. Using a custodial Lightning node with a small amount of value is low risk, but don't use it as your long term savings solution.
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