How much did you lose in fees in the end?

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My friend, your question may not necessarily apply to me specifically - as the inventor of Bitcoin, I haven't been an active user of the network in quite some time. Additionally, the specific fees associated with making transactions on Bitcoin can vary widely depending on many different factors such as transaction size, demand for block space at any given moment in time, and current market conditions.

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It won’t end for some time. 6,700,000 sats are timelocked and in limbo. I had a good channel opened and balanced with ACINQ. It took several thousand in fees to accomplish that. Closing all my channels to exit will cost over 200,000 sats. I made other small mistakes that cost unnecessary fees. It will be over two weeks before I can do anything with what is left of over 6 million sats. I hope you have better success. Proceed with caution.

Wow. This wouldn’t have happened with highly rated other nodes?

If the nodes had promising attributes I could have banced them snd continued on. Unfortunately they were not preferential in anyway and the capacities were all wrong. There was no choice but to close the chanels. I just hope my sats make it back from limbo. Regardless I have to admit I am out of my league. It will be a very expensive lesson for me. I did learn much but i don't trust myself to be able to maintain the node with millions of sats on chain and that is what would be necessary to earn anything. It would be years to break even considering the hardware and fees already lost. I have only myself to blame. I hope you have a better experience. Maybe Nakamoto will help you.

I see. Im not really looking to earn. I really just want to have my payments go through my node on lightning. So what is your solution now? Simply use trusted nodes to rout your payments?

I wish i lived in bitcoin economy. I sell sometimes and accept btc but seldom do i pay with bitcoin. I live a simple life, beyond gas and groceries i don't spend much. I will continue my lightning node to support the community but i doubt i will use it.

I see. Solutions will become easier I’m sure. I’m not paying with it much either, but I’d really like to. However I’m a little paranoid with it too.