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That's going to depend a lot on how much your family is using Lightning.

I have 7 channels and about 20 million sats total liquidity, with just a bit more of that being outbound than inbount. But then, I use Lightning WAY more than the rest of my family that is sharing the node. It's probably more than we need, honestly.
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Crusty 👨‍💻 9mo ago

Thanks!

Probably similar. At least for now.

I guess as you are the main user of your node, you dont have to rebalance that often, or?

And do you think a home node would also be sufficient for a starting side project? I dont want to invest into anything serious until I dont see interest. A home node is already an "investment" anyway.

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Dikaios1517 9mo ago

I haven't ever bothered with rebalancing. I receive via my channels that have inbound liquidity whenever I stack, and then I zap some out to folks here on Nostr and eventually build up enough to send some out to Boltz.exchange to swap to on-chain.

You only really need to worry about keeping channels well balanced if you want your node to be used frequently for routing.

A home node makes a great starting project. A perfect time to start while on-chain fees are so low, too.