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The last 24 hours of #LNBiG (2025-05-27): Amount transactions: 5611 The sum of transfered BTC: 47.08249757 Percentile 0%: 1 sats Percentile 25%: 18247 sats Percentile 50%: 67440 sats Percentile 75%: 248209 sats Percentile 95%: 3421320 sats Last 24 hours fee earning: 1730456 sat (0.01730456 BTC) #LightningNetwork

Hello everyone! I want to share my opinion on how much a node or multiple nodes in the #Bitcoin #LightningNetwork can earn for their owners, using the example of my own nodes. I will provide the figures as an annual percentage. Currently, over approximately five days, the entire network of my nodes earns about 500,000 satoshis per day on average. This is an average parameter. 500,000 satoshis is 0.005 bitcoins. The liquidity on my side across all nodes is roughly around 300 bitcoins. So, let's simply calculate the annual percentage. You can roughly calculate it like this: 0.005 bitcoin multiplied by 365 days divided by 300 bitcoins. Multiply by 100%, and it comes out to about 0.6% profit from fees, which are currently at 700 ppm + 1 sat base fee. This formula does not take into account the costs for opening channels, which include on-chain fees for Bitcoin channel opening transactions, nor does it include various expenses related to channel closures, whether automatic or forced, cooperative or forced. We are just taking the net figure as if the same channels were open all year without any expenses. You should also consider the risks associated with annual node maintenance. These include hosting costs, creating backups, labor efforts, and the risks of node hacking, which could theoretically be hacked and have all funds stolen. Is this a profitable venture? You decide for yourselves. I just wanted to share some useful information with you. Goodbye! #Stats #LNBiG #profit #fees

The last 24 hours of #LNBiG #Stats: Amount transactions: 31291 The sum of transfered BTC: 16.04263519 Percentile 0%: 1 sats Percentile 25%: 56 sats Percentile 50%: 848 sats Percentile 75%: 12320 sats Percentile 95%: 173687 sats Last 24 hours fee earning: 9582 sat (0.00009582 BTC) #LightningNetwork

I have a feeling that the node "c=" is experiencing some issues. The thing is, I've noticed that its capacity has decreased over the past few days. You can verify this yourself using the viewer at amboss.space. Another indirect sign of problems is that when I tried to cooperatively close channels with it a few minutes ago—channels that haven't been used for payments in 14 days—several channels were unable to be closed cooperatively, even though the node is online. This usually happens when a node has lost data about the channels. The node itself is online, but when a remote peer connects to it and requests, for example, to cooperatively close a channel that was with it, the node doesn't respond because it no longer has data about the channel. With this node, I have the feeling that this exact problem is occurring. It would be interesting to know from the owners of this node whether they are indeed experiencing any problems currently, whether they've had a failure or not. I think they have. #LightningNetwork

Hello everyone! I decided to try out a new optimization algorithm that came to my mind recently. It works as follows: channels that haven't been used to send payments in the last 14 days are considered suboptimal for maintaining liquidity, and I close such channels. Also, to avoid closing channels that were opened less than 30 days ago, because I take on the commitment to keep a channel open for at least 30 days, I exclude those channels from this closing condition. Previously, I thought a channel was well utilized when the amount sent and received exceeded the channel's capacity, meaning that payments at least once fully utilized the entire channel. But now I realized that's not entirely correct, because there could be channels that were used well and actively several months ago, but for example, no payments have been made in the last two weeks. Does it make sense to keep such channels? I think not. Today's closing algorithm, it seems to me, won't lead to a decrease in the number of passing payments because it will close channels that haven't used a single payment through the #LNBiG network in the last two weeks. What's most interesting is that there are actually a lot of such channels. It's approximately one sixth of the total capacity I'm using on my side in open channels at the moment. Yes, and I almost forgot, I decided to execute the channel closures right now because the Bitcoin transaction fee is currently at its minimal level, and channels can be closed with a fee of 1 vbyte/sat #LightningNetwork #Lightning #LN