One of my LN nodes is a few years old. I don't consider it a routing node, but I have a few large channels that I opened a year and a half ago, when the fiat bitcoin price was much lower than it is now.
This morning I woke up to find that it had more routing activity in the past 24 hours than it has had in years. I checked the mempool, but on chain fees are rock bottom low.
It seems too unusual a coincidence. I wonder if the recent fiat price spike has is somehow related? Maybe the fiat value increase in my channels?
Has anyone else experienced this?
I'm not sure there is a correlation.
Any other ideas as to why this is happening?