Lesson 4

1. First Identify a sustainable sink/tap loop (even if manual to start with) and then ‘follow the chain’. Operating a second node to receive payments then send them back to the sink is invaluable.

There are more efficient ways of submarine swaps than loops and Boltz to move funds on/off chain. Be creative!

2. Before you get annoyed at spending 40k sats, remember each sat spent is also a learning experience. If you get it right, you may make it back! After spending my allotted learning balance, I opted to burn the test umbrel node (really didn’t feel safe running in umbrel) and start a fresh node with a fresh P&L

3. Balance of Satoshi telegram notifications are great.

4. Zeus is great at showing revenue. Less so profit after expenses

11 days in, 35k sats in fees earned. Mental gymnastics and a -1 multiplier applied, I’m spending the 6869 I haven’t earned back yet. The blue line on the P&L feels good

#lnd #lightning