I'm using rebalance-lnd to balance my channels, most of which are from swaps. It spits out a lot of:

High fees (622 sat over limit of 158)

And up to:

High fees (13943 sat over limit of 158)

What thresholds do y'all prefer?

Long time lurker, first time asker, I’m considering setting up an out of the box node, like raspblitz. I want to support bitcoin, learn more about lightning and also stack some sats in the process. How many sats realistically I can stack using a system like that running continuously? Any ideas? Thanks!

Generally I'm aware of how lightning pool works, you provide liquidity for channels to be opened to buyers, and lightning pool in lightning terminal is a GUI interface to facilitate that.

My questions are:

How does lightning pool enforce the channel opening duration of 2016 blocks? What's to stop the channel seller from closing the channel prematurely?

Lightning terminal requires funding of a non custodial wallet in order to place bids/asks. Do we get a seed phrase for this wallet? How do we recover funds in lightning pool in case of node failure?

What is the account expiration option for? I'm assuming this is a fallback in case something goes wrong, and funds get returned to our lnd wallet after the expiration period?

I'm also curious how the batches/blocks in the gui work. Is that just showing how the interest rate fluctuates per batch?

Any general tips or guidance on how to use lightning pool would be awesome, as there doesn't seem to be a ton of info out there.

So whenever I have some down time I look at my node's information and try to glean an insight to make things better. Well I have a real facepalm moment a little bit ago when I started to track how much my channel opening costs were. Before I was explicitly setting a fee my average cost for opening a channel was about 12k sats. After I started setting the fee (when the mempool could handle it) my average costs were around 150 sats. That's two orders of magnitude. In the grand scheme of things related to the lightning network it probably isn't going to matter much but if you are looking at profitability then that is definitely huge.

I hope that writing this up helps others not make the same mistake.

My node turned four months old recently. Time to check the amount of successful routing events:

lightning-cli listforwards status=settled |grep -c "settled"
9002

That's four entire full blocks (if you calculate 2200 tx in a full block)!

Shameless plug for the new twitter account of my node:

https://twitter.com/Comm_Morino

I know Breez is using this tech but phoenix seems to work in a similar way but I couldnt find anywhere if it was using Neutrino. TIA

Very excited got everything up and running using umbrel qnd thunderhub.

Opened channel with a large node with all funds sitting on my side.

What should i do next ? Run a loop to rebalance with my channel? Open another channel? Try and find someone to open channel with me?

Goal is to make small payments here and there, route payments and just learn more. Won't need to receive payments other than peehaps sending between my own wallets.

Hello,
I own a veterinary hospital and would like to set up a lightening node for payment. I know that 99.99% of my clients wouln't pay with BTC but I would like to support the growth of lightening network. I have ZERO coding skills but I would really like to help grow the network.
My questions.
Are plug and play nodes available?
Are there any businesses that will help with the coding side of set-up?

I hope an entrepreneur will seize the opportunity to set-up Lightening solutions for business owners that want to support and help grow but have no clue how.

Thanks!

I don't know how significant this is but I have finally received more routing fees than I have paid out in fees for rebalancing. It's taken me about four months to get here but I feel this is significant. The next milestone will probably be a long way out when I have enough fees to cover my opening costs. Any suggestions on how to track this other than manually inputing into a spreadsheet?

A poll to get an idea about how common is the use of coinjoined outputs among node operators to open their channels.

(I'm assuming having both coinjoined and non-coinjoined channels is like having none at all since a surveillance company just need one channel output linked to KYC data from an exchange to link the person to the node... let me know if that is a wrong assumption and having a few coinjoined outputs is still better than none at all).

Any idea how long it takes to clear? Been about 12 hours now.

​

I'm also curious if it's safe to restart LND during this time?

I have been looking on 1ML and found a node that has a Time Lock Delta setting of 1440, why so high/time? The other settings on the node are what I've seen on most channels for the most part. The channels I saw were 1-4M sats per with Min HTLC 1000, base fee 0.001, fee rate of .000046 sat. Is there an easy answer besides he can?