Does anyone know why it’s “bad” for a bitcoin miner to also be a lightning routing node? ie. Are there possible exploits a miner is able to do to its peers/channel partners that are not possible for regular routing nodes? I feel like I’ve heard “don’t just a miner that’s also a routing node” but don’t quite remember why, will sling some sats around to whoever has a solid answer

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good q

We got a solid answer on stacker news by null count!

(Thank you bounties)

https://stacker.news/items/210963/r/036c1b60f7

And nitfy nei wrote a great article that goes more in-depth about the subject:

https://chainfail.substack.com/p/lightning-mev

I feel enlightened