More htlcs and more is the probability of force closures because you never know which one would get stuck. Generally nodes with less activity experience much less force closures.

You also should probably assess your peers, if you know a peer is going offline frequently you should probably cut them.

everything is targeted towards less htlcs flying around.

No automated rebalances means less HTLCS flying around by your own node.

Raising cltv delta means you raise the timeout you give for the htlc, so your peer has more time to come back online to prevent a force closure.

Setting higher fee rates again means you forward less payments and probably you'll forward real payments and not just somebody else's rebalances.

Raising min htlc means you'll forward only larger size payments and not small ones like zaps. Imagine getting force closed in this mempool for a 10 sat zap payment.

If you run a routing node, things you could do if you haven't done already to reduce the possibility of force closures because the current mempool situation is crazy.

1. Stop automated rebalances

2. Raise fees

3. Raise cltv delta (mine's 120)

4. Raise minhtlc to only forward large payments.

5. Pray to the mempool gods.

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I'm running a Bitcoin Core node on my laptop and just enabled inbound connections via port forwarding on my router.

Is there anything I should be aware of with regards to security there? I noticed if I'm running a VPN on my laptop inbound connections don't work...

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The UX is so different, that's why they don't know. The playstation 4 OS is based on BSD, but I don't think anyone would call that a BSD experience.

We all write here, but no one reads and few watch carefully.

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I think the chances of widespread adoption of Nostr are about as slim as the possibility of Linux taking off with normies. Although there's a genuine need for it, I suspect it'll always be a niche thing.

What was the latest thing that made you bullish on bitcoin?

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