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Filou | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 *obvious caveat is the stats shown in Terminal do not account for HW costs and monthly electricity costs! Plus some risk of holding sats in hot wallet, etc. 

But still, it's absolutely invaluable for me personally. ⚡
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Dikaios1517 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Some risk? Sir, you have approaching 15 Bitcoin in total capacity. Even assuming only ~1/2 of that is on your side of any given channel, that is far more money in a hot wallet than most plebs even own, let alone would be willing to have in a hot wallet.

So it's not just time and effort and decent hardware that is needed to run a profitable routing node. It's also a decent amount of capital outside of cold storage.
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Filou | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Absolutely 💯 true.
(ps. I have FARRR less than 1/2 total capacity on my side though.🙀 also one of the most profitable nodes I know of BY FAR has less than 1BTC in *total* capacity, ymmv)