My umbrel node was down for 4 days, restarted it today and found 4 channels remote forced closing.
It seems my node paid crazy fees of around 166,000 sats for those closings. 166k! $70. Fuck 😑.
Two weeks ago I lost another 3 to remote force closings, thankfully at better fees.
Rekt. Yes it is reckless, not for the faint-hearted. I'm gonna keep the channels I already have but I'm not opening new ones, force closings are killing me.
Routing payments feels good, sounds nice, but reality's math is killing me.
I'll leave it to professionals, for me it's totally unsustainable.
Since the opening node pays for force closures, you could pay node operators for opening channels to your node. This would allow you to calculate exactly the cost on your side.
Yes, true, but I'm done with paying 🫠.
This last event cured me from trying to run a routing node. I've done it for 2-3 years just to feel good about helping the network, i've paid for openings, force closes, rebalancing, loops, and it really doesn't add up for me. Was fun, learned some stuff, but It's way too painful losing so many sats for nothing.
I'm not using it for sales or anything, other than routing i only used it for my personal transactions.
I'm down to 22 channels now, 3 of my partners are usually offline so 19. I'm gonna keep the channels and the node up 24/7 like always for any forwards to go through.
But I'm done with the rest, i've reached my breaking point lol.
Fair enough
