Happy to be of service. I never expected making any profits out of this. As long as it covers my expenses, I'm happy. The rest is just a bonus.

Heading abroad next week for a couple of months of vacation.  Leaving my node for an extended time always makes me wary, but it should be fine (last time I was abroad I had to explain to my mom on a video call how to restart the server after a power outage)...

@hisslyness Sorry for closing our channel. I was just trying to take advantage of the LOOP activity, making me close channels where funds were all on my side. I'll re-open a 8M sats channel

Well, not really. The past 6 months have been far more active than the first two years.

F*ck it, full disclosure. Here's the stats of the node's lifetime



Total profit is 0.162 btc, as you can see in the graph.  However, as you can see, most of the profit is made in the past 6 months. LN activity is growing.

A little update on my Lightning Network venture.

My node has been running close to 3 years now. During that time, I've routed over 500 btc.

Here's some stats for the past 90 days



For the past 30 days I'm 0.009 btc in profits and in 90 days it's at 0.067 btc.

Thanks!

It's a Macan.

I use it as my main/family car. We're are a small family of three, so it fits us perfectly.

I really love this car, Porsche is something else.

What's up fam, it's been a while.

I've treated myself (that's the WO-sign we used a few years back, right?).

I bought a new domain for my LN node btw -- pleb.channel. At the moment, it's redirecting to my old meme url goblin-no.de, but whenever I have some time, I might do something useful with it. Ideas are welcome.

Another month is coming to an end in the Lightning realm.

This month has been something else. I've never experienced anything like it during my 3 years of running a routing node.

May 14th was particularly crazy. I routed ~7 btc on that day, with about 5 btc alone on my channel with LOOP. I have a 1 btc channel with them, and it kept getting drained at ~3500-4000 ppm, while I was able to rebalance the channel at about 2500-3000 ppm. Here is an example from my telegram bot (all these forwards happened instantaneously).

Before the day was over, I was over 1M sats in profit. Looking at my node's previous performance, I made about 3 months profit in one day.

The traffic slowed down somewhat after that, but this month has still been out of the ordinary. The APY this month on the btc I've tied up on my node is 6%. That's pretty wild. Here are my statistics for the past month.



Let's break down the numbers. During the last 30 days, I've routed ~50 btc. My revenue is 0.12 btc and I've paied 0.089 btc in rebalancing my channels, making a profit of 0.031 btc.

However, during all my years of routing, the APY is on a more moderate level of 0.6%.

Jazz. Hello?

cAPS, I'm really happy you're posting again. Gives me a reason to visit, please don't stop.

Sorry, I'm a bit of a retard when it comes to understanding emojis and all that.

Thailand has been my 2nd home for the past 8 years. We have an apartment in Bangkok as well. During all my years there, I have never felt unsafe walking alone late at night. I feel much safer there than I do in my home country (Sweden).

The traffic on the other hand, that's where I should be worried. The risk of getting in a traffic accident is like 10x higher than my home country. My brother-in-law nearly got killed a couple of years ago when he was rammed by a car while he was driving his motorbike.

That's the final cost actually, including windows, AC, flooring and what not.

This is Thailand, so material and labor is very cheap compared to any western country.

Our new vacation home is taking shape.



It's amazing what 0.5 btc will give you, considering what I paid for it back in the days.

Now it may sound cheap, but a decade from now, the same amount will probably be enough for a big mansion.

We're above $100k, you gotta add beef to that sandwich.

Damn, my guess was one day off. Anyway, happy $100k y'all.

Last time under $100k?

Thanks for your insight. I've read up on the Nvidia rumors, that's huge if true. The US, even bigger. Interesting times.

Next friday, May 9th

Wait, what. This is extremely bullish.

Regarding the Arizona bill, Governor Hobbs is known to veto most of the bills, let's not get our hopes up there.

GameStop I agree with you, Ryan Cohen has been hinting this a long time.

Nvidia is new to me, do you have any sources?

The US selling gold to buy bitcoin -- I believe it when I see it.

Haha, yeah that's me. Give it some time, we'll be in the green soon.

I'm in. I aped and went all-in. There's more steam in this train.

Yes, that version.

I used to run a knots node a couple of years back, but I switched back to core later. A bit worrisome running a node which code is only maintained by one(?) guy..

I'm a bit out of the loop, but I've seen this discussion taking up some of my X feed lately. I need to read up what this is all about.

The past few weeks in the LN space have been out of the ordinary, the forwards have been on steroids. Here are a few examples from the past couple of days



I'm over 1M sats in profits over the past 30 days, f*cking crazy.

edit: here it is