Everyone's needs are different. You need channels to well connected nodes. It could be 4 girthy channels to the 4 largest nodes or 8 smaller channels to medium nodes.
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I have like 38 channels on my node.
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Is that because you want to earn routing fees or just for functionality and efficiency of being able to transact?
I want open one and some friends too. Do you know some video tutorial for us ?