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I’m considering to run my own Lightning node with a self-hosted nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm Hub but I'm not sure I fully understand what that entails yet.

Here is what I’ve understood so far: Opening my own channel makes sense if I start with at least 100.000sats, though 1.000.000sats is recommended. I’d stick with 100k sats for now while I get my feet wet but I’d increase it as I gain experience and confidence in my node.

How do I decide if I run a private or public or private channel? So far I mostly use Minibits and Wallet of Satoshi for my zapping needs.

If I were to run a public channel intending on making a few sats by handling lightning transactions for others, how would anyone know of my channel? Do they even need to know my channel or would my peers offload some of their transactions to my node?

If I were to handle transactions for others, is there a good tutorial on how to debug transaction issues?

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Jestopher 7mo ago

I'm always a fan of public nodes, because it provides public infrastructure for payments and gives you a potential revenue stream. Public channels use "gossip" in BOLT 7 of the lightning spec to advertise channels existence.

Handling public transactions is at the protocol level and doesn't require any debugging. The only thing you need to worry about is doing channel backups regularly and the health of your channel database.

Try bootstrapping your new node with a small liquidity subscription at ~$5/month, which will ensure that your node can route, not just send:

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