Yea I think he’s right

Large LSPs

Lightning service providers

Like Zeus uses Olympus

That may be profitable

But from what I understand it’s extremely difficult to make money from a small routing node.

There are plenty of other reasons to do it.

But not necessarily profitability….

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yes thats why i am still running one

and i came really far i guess

but maybe i could tune it a little more

Most lightning nodes are not profitable. To be profitable, you gotta be a hustler, be able to find gaps in the lightning network (hard) and have lots of capital deployed.

I run my lightning node to be fully self sovereign with lightning and to be able to run services for my family and friends like lnbits :)