Its a bit weird. Retail is not here yet. I guess the ETFs are driving the price up and maybe they don't settle onchain too often.
Maybe people are using lightning more for everyday spending and receiving. But the LN capacity hasn't really grown that much.
Re lightning, I can only speak for my own node. It has been up for 2 1/2 years and it has been particularly quiet recently. I know this doesn't mean much, so I'm curious to know what experience others are having.
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54 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 29 Jul
Quiet as in for routing?
Running a LN node is quite some trouble from my experience. I still want to try again, but the mobile wallets work pretty well IMO. Particularly Phoenix, Zeus and Electrum. You have it on your phone which makes it easy to pay when you're out.
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Yes. I don't want to draw real conclusions from my node. My emphasis has evolved from a feeble attempt at routing to simply using it for my own purposes instead. Still, I have some old, large channels to prominent nodes that tend to often do a good deal of routing, without me necessarily trying. Those channels have been quiet. Again, I would prefer knowing what others are experiencing before drawing conclusions.
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