I’ve been wanted to get my node setup properly for a while now. Now that Nostr is blowing up I’ve gotta dig in and get it all figured out.
One thing I like to do as a #bitcoin lightning node operator, is to watch all the sats being routed by my node and the few bits of stats I collect as a reward to help the transactions being routed to their destinations. This don't pay the VPS bill but I feel like I contributed to something bigger and I am proud of it.
If you want to open a channel with my node, you are more than welcomed: https://1ml.com/node/0280a430d4fba001fa615c08f2ee0ffc6264ac628f306f68e3a21719d88d051749
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There is a learning curve but if you like this stuff, you won't be able to stop learning more. Peace!
I did give it a try a couple months back. Opened a couple channels but don’t think I had it setup in an effective way. Updated my node this weekend and it got me fired back up again to try it one more time.
Once you open channels with other nodes, you must have other people open channels with you. Otherwise routing sats will not happen. You can ask services on the web that offers to open channels with you for a fee. Keep your routing fees lower than other nodes and you will be routing away sats.