Fwiw my node earns yields well above 10% consistently for over a year now. It took a few years of building up the node, learning, trial and error, to get to that point, but it is certainly possible. Even for a ‘small’ plebnode with few BTC capacity
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hat of to you sir! that is a very respectable achievement
Nice data point! Thanks for sharing
And say it was consistently 10%, what are the reasons that yield might compress?
Competition. Entropy. Malfunction. Etc?
Biggest driver of earnings is routing volume. It’s the one factor out of the hands of the noderunner. But volumes overall on the network have been very steadily increasing for a while now. In the past there would be shorter spurts of heavier volumes; what we are seeing now is very consistent and sustained.
Competition— I don’t think is much of an issue at this point. There are very few ‘professional’ lightning modes outside of the large commercial operators. There’s currently more demand for liquidity than is being met imo.
It’s a really interesting investment opportunity I think
Clear need
Clear demand
Earn sats (no Bitcoin hurdle rate)
Self-custody possible
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