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I just posted an article about why I have closed my very old #lightning #bitcoin node.

Main reasons are:

- Too much work and time spent maintaining the node.

- Meager earnings.

- High technical knowledge requirements if you really want to have more than 5 or 10 channels and resolve technical issues that will undoubtedly arise in the years to come.

- Limited mobile options (forces you to set up a reverse proxy with a VPS in some datacenter if you want to use clearnet).

- Excessive risk, money is at stake and hardware can fail, or a bug in the software could arise.

- Limited automation options (the only one that works well is CLBOSS and it's only available for CLIGHTNING).

- Periodic headaches.

Have a look at the article:

https://stacker.news/items/486283

⚡ Dee Kay ⚡🇸🇪🇬🇧🇨🇿🇧🇷🇦🇹 1y ago

Randomly Force closed channels for a fee 100x a daily "revenue" is the worst in my opinion.

We (hobby node operators) are just donating money to miners.

Secretly they must be loving lightning!

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Javier 1y ago

Yes we are donating money to them, but it is not true that they benefit from it much. In all these years, my node have routed like 200k transactions, imagine how much money in fees the miners didn't received. And that was from my single node. Imagine how much is being moved through LN globally!