Subnostr

My recommendation is to NOT run a full public routing node, if all you need it for is sending and receiving personal payments as needed. Open 2 or 3 private channels from your home node to well-connected nodes. This will give you redundancy in case one of them happens to be offline, and will also give you greater chances of successful routing. It also ensures that your channel liquidity stays where you want it and doesn’t get shifted via routing other people’s payments. Less work and stress than a public routing node too.

BOOK IT 2y ago

This so hard tbh. If your goal ISNT to be a routing node private channels are the way. Just in this case you will most likely need bigger well connected nodes and most start out at 1 to 5mil sats per channel required, so may be expensive to be well connected with few peers. Best thing you can do is find peers with low fees, connected to peers you need or send to alot, and are down rarely.

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Dawn 2y ago

That's good to know in advance. Do you think 1, 3 and 5mil would be a good spread?

(Tried zapping your reply but can't rn, I'll try it again later 😅)

BOOK IT 2y ago

You can do something like kraken for 1 mil alby for 2mil and think wos and is still a good peer to have at 5 to 10 mil. If you have specific content creators you support make sure to add them with a small channel to zap for low fees! Same goes for services you might use alot like bitrefill, breez, mutiny, etc.

Dawn 2y ago

Awesome, thank you!