I'm lucky to have several large (~1 BTC and more) channels and enough inbound liquidity on my #LightningNetwork node. Because of this, I also see large forward requests. Some succeed, some fail.

However, it's always saddening when my node has to reject a 0.9 BTC forward request with lots of sats attached as fees I could claim. I simply don't have that much liquidity.

I wonder how this wrks out for other node operators - Alex Bosworth with his yalls nodes as an example.

It'd be nice for LSPs/wallets to split larger payments (MPP), possibly with #PickhardtPayments. That way, my node could at least serve a (large?) fraction of the total amount. But, who knows, maybe those 0.9 BTC in my example above are just 1% of the total amount :)

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I don't get why people would send such a high amount via lightning.

If I'm not miscalculating the fees for on chain transactions should be much cheaper 🤷‍♂️

Of course, only "if" the fee market looks like it did in the last few days...

Maybe to swap out to get inbound liquidity or for arbitrage between exchanges (time sensitive)

Good point