I don't follow the BTC/USD price too much but I am very much watching the mempool price multiple times a day.

If I had to guess, over the years I've saved millions of sats in fees by being patient and keeping a close eye on the mempool.

This is a must if you intend to run a profitable lightning router.

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Care to expand on this a little bit?

Or a lot?

Wait until fees come down to do your on-chain transaction, such as managing lightning channels, consolidation of utxos and coinjoins

Managing lightning channels?

What does that include?

If you run a lightning node only. If you're interested in learning more about lightning nodes, checkout Umbrel or Start9 or EmbassyOS

I have a nodl and run a ⚑node, but haven't done much with it.

Need to invest some time.

You favorite resources?

Plebnet.wiki

Ty sir!

I get the first and last

πŸ’― open channels in the "bone zone" (1 sat/vb)... The problem with profitability happens when they're force closures and the mempool is full