As a student of the LN, i will assume the cost of rebalancing channels is now too high, probably because of Ordinals.
Thunderhub at least tried to process them, but again, fees are too high to bear.
I wonder how hard it will become to run LN nodes in the future by everyday plebs.
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What is the affordable cost for a pleb to have his own LN node at current time?
I think for a channel to be robust and used, a minimum of 2.5M sats is to be considered at the current time. This requirement will go down over time with deflation.
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I use fee rates to try to get the sats flowing in the right direction. Not always successful.
You really don’t have to balance liquidity to run a LN node. Sure, it helps route payments for others, but half the time whatever channel has the imbalance can be routed through and it’s 100% not worth it to keep them perfectly balanced
As long as you can maintain big channels with at least an 80:20 ratio you’ll be fine
Understood. I will try an 80:20 and see, however, isn't our goal to help route payments for others? In this case then we will need thousands of new nodes to come online for an 80:20 to be effective in the long term.
One more reason to make LN nodes accessible to all.
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Check out LNDg if you are running LND node. You can set some parameters and it will auto rebalance.
Big +1 to LNDg. Some of the configs take a bit of time to fully understand, but it’s incredibly helpful for those that need auto rebalancing and a GUI.
