A few days ago, I reduced the fees on all channels to 500 ppm. Also, in recent days, I've noticed a large number of channels being bought through the web service (for example, in the last two days about 14-15 channels were bought daily, whereas a few weeks ago, on average, 5-6 channels were bought). This might have been influenced by the fact that previously, channel openings could only occur for anchor channels, but I recently removed this restriction, and now Static Remote type channels also work for opening channels.

I also have to add liquidity to the nodes because such active channel purchases almost every day exhaust the funds that I additionally deposit.

Recently, I have been actively closing channels based on the criterion that if they haven't had at least one transaction in either direction in the last seven days. I haven't done this for more than a week, but the funds that were previously freed I moved to cold storage. Now I almost have to fund the nodes every day to meet the demand for opening channels.

Just from the last 14-15 channels that were opened daily, I was able to earn about 2.4 million satoshis, which is roughly equivalent to around 2,500 dollars.

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