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).
💰 Forwarded 0.12192240 Kraken 🐙⚡️ → LOOP. Earned 0.00043806 0.36% (3593)
💰 Forwarded 0.24334431 bfx-lnd0 → LOOP. Earned 0.00087432 0.36% (3593)
💰 Forwarded 0.24384481 LNBϟG [Edge-2] → LOOP. Earned 0.00087612 0.36% (3593)
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%.
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