loving following the progress here. i closed the few chans i had a while ago..
Interesting to think about spinning up a lightning node up these days and locking up liquidity.. You could easily lock up 50-100m sats in liquidity - but i feel like the economic incentive to do this and the risks involved don't really stack up. Am i wrong?
I think unless you are running a large node the economic incentives aren’t there. You probably aren’t going to make enough in fees to even get close to covering your costs once you include the hardware, electricity, channel opening & close fees etc. Mine is still fairly small though and I mostly just run it for my own interest and learning purposes, but it is kind of cool to see the transactions flowing through it supporting the network.
Part of the reason I rebuilt mine was to try and reduce the risks. My original node was on old hardware and I used Umbrel/LND as it was an easy way to get started. I wasn’t as worried about the risk when I was buying Bitcoin for the node at $20k. As the price went up though and I had invested more sats to open channels I became more worried about the possibility of something going wrong and losing it.
