How to make money running a #lightning node?

1 - setup and fund your own #bitcoin full node (this is so much fun in itself - but don’t get too excited when you at about 75% done in terms of blocks - the last epoch takes forever)

2 - open a few channels and link a few wallets (all good so far)

3 - watch it religiously for about 1 week

4 - lose interest and after restarting about 3-4 times (just turn it off)

5 - 1 years latter rip out the hard drive, format it to do an emergency backup

6 - 6 months latter, remember you had some #btc on the node

7 - find a way to access the funds (this is ridiculously fun in that you spend 2 days setting up another node and then try all sorts off wallets and software to try and access the old wallet and config

8 - success, you locate your funds, send to a HW and it’s worth 4x the dollars (for the purists- okay I’ll acknowledge you lost a few sats on forced closes, but at the end of the day you still have bulk of your BTC)

9 - lesson learned - stay humble, stack sats