Makes sense. If your channel is inactive you have stats locked up, at risk, in a hot wallet. And you get nothing. Why wouldn't you wait till fees were low and close those channels?

Or if you have a channel that's active but it's getting sucked down by liquidity sinks or not able to remake its cost in fees. Then again? Why would you not close your channel and use those sets for something more useful?

But if you figured out how to monetize your channel through whatever means? Then keep it open. And watch it be used even more.

I think the big surprise if the lightning network is going to be used by large entities not by small transactions. And a new network will form underneath it for smaller transactions. Chaumian ecash? But then, will we just see that happen again? Perhaps... but at a much higher scale.

Fun..

Isn't it...