This month was quite active for my node. 33 events made it one of the best months or maybe the best month since I run the node. However, I have the feeling that most of the routed payments were also rebalances as response to my own rebalances, if I make myself understand.

I mean, it happened over and onver again that after I perform a rebalance, in the next day or so, all the amount used in that rebalance was already in other side of the same or eventually other channels!
I did quite a few rebalances and it always happened, so I gave up and decided to change some fees in some of my channels to try to make outgoing channels, incoming, and vice-versa!

Another month, another improvement. But I also paid quite a few sats in rebalancing. Probably it was almost the same as I got from forwarding payments! Never tracked how much I spent in fees for rebalancing channels!

What program are you using to do this monitoring?
Or better yet, what program are you using to run the LN node?

From a quick look at the project website, it seemed to me that they don't have any version for Windows. Or am I mistaken?

I was thinking about CLN.
But, I will analyze the other options, which have a Windows version. If there isn't, no problem...

I want to try to avoid using this solution. I'll try to look for something that works on Windows. There must be something.
In fact, I already did some brief research, and it seemed to me that there was something.

Yes, it's due to Satogram, a kind-of ad broadcaster that reaches nearly the entire lightning network.

They don't need an invoice to send you satoshi. Anyone can send you satoshi over lightning by just having your node ID and keysend. If you're running LND, you can disable receiving that way with "accept-amp=false".

I wouldn't do it, if I were you. Just like email spam, but you're getting paid. 

Long time no posting here, but here it goes:

October 2023


November 2023


December 2023


January 2024


February 2024


March

I had this question, too, and more. Oktober 2023 wasn't bad either, while seemingly out of nothing March '24 plummets deeply.

darkv0rt3x said earlier that he doesn't unfortunately keep track of expenses for rebalancing. I would really like to know if there's a correlation between effort to rebalance and if it pays off with more routing fees. And particularly if you don't have to spend more for rebalancing as you get in return for collecting routing fees, obviously.

Another of my personal details of interest is change in number of channels and channel size. Has there been any substantial changes which resulted in the increase of routing fees?

However, I would completely understand if darkv0rt3x prefers not to make such details public.


Meanwhile, in late 2023 I closed my few own managed channels of my RaspiBlitz LND node. For some time my channels served me the purpose I opened them for. I had some personal usage and I wanted to experiment a little and see if and how I could manage coin flow for rebalancing purposes. It didn't work out well enough. I'm sure it were too few channels, too small size of channels and with too few channel partners you would have to be exceptionally lucky to have chosen channel partners that could provide you lots of routing opportunities. I knew I couldn't expect any good traffic despite my own transfer needs.

I take the learning experience with me which I don't want to miss. I'm sure I still don't understand quite some settings, especially to enhance and support coin flow in desirable direction for as cheap as possible channel rebalancing. (My experience with circular payments was almost always a too expensive one, compared to return of interest through subsequent routing.)

My experiment had limits and I didn't want to lock more than a few million sats of liquidity for it. I don't complain...

I didn't do anything special other than closing and opening new channels and also playing with fees. But I also don't keep track of how many sats I spend in rebalancing. If I'm on the green, it's just barelly because rebalancing is expensive and you only get the feeling of how much you should set your fees for the green after you know how much you spend in rebalancing. Meaning that for instance, if I open a channel with 2M sats and those sats "travel" to the other peer, I know how many sats I earn with the channel but I only know if those sats are enough after I know how much I spent in rebalancing. So, this is always a not very fair game, at least for smaller nodes like mine.

A few weeks ago I opened a 2M sats channel with some peer. Most of that outbound liquidity travelled to the other peer in a couple of days. I didn't check how much I earned in fees but yesterday I pushed 200k sats to this channel again (from one other channel) and I know I spent 121 sats. I raised the fees a bit to 0 sats base fee and 390 ppm (or something like that) .Those 200k sats already moved again to the other peer and I only earned aroun 76 sats. So, I know, I lost  a bit. Now, I've raised the ppm a bit further to 420 ppm and will try to rebalance again! I know I'll be on the red but, it's a long learning/playing proccess!

This month of April I know I'm not very bad because I am with 3.6k sats of fees! Probably I spent like less than 2k sats in rebalancing!