#Noderunning is not passive income. It's not earning 'yield' on your sats. Most nodes will never be profitable. But that doesn't mean they can't be with some effort and patience. Most important factor overall is stability; That includes running on decent hardware (not raspi) and offering a clearnet connection rather than TOR-only. These two points alone will eliminate a very large percentage of avoidable forced-closures, which is *by far* the #1 biggest cost in maintaining a public routing node.
#Nodelou🐈 is currently a month short of its 3-year nodeiversary, and is earning sats consistently every day. Many others earn multiples of this in far less time and/or with smaller nodes, so this is just an example.
~MORE IMPORTANTLY~
My node is my sole banking/checking account and has allowed me to #optout entirely of fiat banking. It's my privacy layer on top of #Bitcoin. It hosts my own mempool (npub18d4…6lt3) instance and my personal Bitcoin Core verifies my own txs. It also runs my btcpayserver (npub155m…dcvg) that powers SweetSats (npub1swe…ns6h), our farm webstore, and also functions as our in-person POS at farmer's markets connected remotely via ZEUS (npub1xnf…lpr5). I use it to buy products online, pay bills, and send/receive self-sovereign zaps. I can travel anywhere in the world and access my funds with no intermediaries or restrictions. Even if it cost me to keep it running– the services and utility it provides in my daily life are absolutely indispensable over the costs of using traditional banking services. Not to mention tons of highly-valuable education and skills acquired, and a couple good #norderunner friends along the way! 🤓🤙
I never set out to earn from my node: I just aim to provide a stable connection hub for my peers with high uptime and low-latency, good channel connections, and try to set the lowest fees possible while maintaining flow and channel balance. The rest is just patience. #runanode
Connection URIs:
03641a88d80a2a85bbecd770577aca9b5495616e9fef63d66ef2631b7cca1d395d@198.46.217.205:9735
03641a88d80a2a85bbecd770577aca9b5495616e9fef63d66ef2631b7cca1d395d@zteyygsobjvm32qkusrvq4clebfbb4b2iso2jto23kzxohfxkwedynqd.onion:9735
Amboss (npub19tc…nlea): https://amboss.space/node/03641a88d80a2a85bbecd770577aca9b5495616e9fef63d66ef2631b7cca1d395d
h/t Derek Ross (npub18am…p424) The: Daniel⚡️ (npub1aeh…4nwx) The Nodestrich ♾️ (npub1hxf…5p6t)
quotingIn good conscience I have to chime in on this post. It's awesome the revenue that Derek is making, but for anyone thinking about standing up a routing node, the majority of nodes won't be profitable. There are cost associated to open channels, rebalancing, and most of all, force closes.
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Here are my routing stats for approximately 5 months. What it doesn't show is that I'm around 150,000 sats in the red. Running a lightning node, in my opinion, is a great education in Bitcoin and contribution to the resiliency of the Lightning network. But save for the really large nodes, many won't be profitable.
Take that for what it's worth. I'm my mind the sats that I've "lost" aren't a loss at all but the best education/experience I've had in the space.
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