Oddbean new post about login | logout Not at all. I ran a routing node for about a year and learned a ton about bitcoin and LN in the process. There is a substantial cost in the way of capital and time to doing it right and provide good liquidity and connectivity to the rest of the network. The costs far outweighed the benefit I would gain from it right now. Maybe that changes in the future. Everyone needs to make a cost/benefit analysis for themselves, but the task itself does not become easier or less expensive simply because it becomes more worth it to you.
The benefit *you* would gain *right now* Are you in it for NGU or a low time preference attempt to make the world a more free place? If it is only NGU then we will never see eye to eye. If you truly care about the cause please reconsider. More nodes is important to our success.
You're using a false dichotomy. NGU and caring about freedom are not at odds. You're also falsely assuming that caring about running something profitably is at odds with freedom.
You quit because you lost money and you advise others not to do it because they'll lose money right at the moment when the news makes it clear how important it is. You put these things at odds not me. I know that the NGU is so powerful that in $ terms the sats spent opening channels was a very brief dip in my $ net worth.
You're being irrational in this discussion and accusing me of things that simply aren't true. I won't reply further to you here.
Fair, that last post was a bit attacky and that is not my goal. I know I'll never change your mind. I want the opposing view represented next to your posts so people on the fence reading this can make an informed decision knowing the pros and the cons. I said elsewhere, the cons are real. I'm not disputing that. I just think the the low time preference freedom loving choice is to deal with them and do it anyway for a large number of people. Having different goals and time preference for my node doesn't make me irrational.