Oddbean

Hi TKay, I order my umbrel and then did the research on what it takes to run a profitable node. Yes, completely back asswards. Did not realize all the costs and how much BTC needs to be staked. Is your node profitable? Is there a way to have your channels rebalance automatically? All these questions came up after I read the thread below. https://community.umbrel.com/t/how-to-operate-a-profitable-lightning-node-or-at-least-not-go-broke/9511

Did you order an Umbrel Home? On profitability. Mine is not profitable so are 90% of the nodes on the network 😅 if you find someone with a profitable node, let’s find a way to talk to him and learn how they do it. But I’ll say this, you learn a lot, it’s an investment for the future, it does save you money on transfer fees so over time, instead of paying for onchain fees every time you DCA or send someone some sats, all of these will be almost free. If you had asked me, I would have said don’t buy an Umbrel Home, it’s a little expensive for the spec. Any old miniPC would have done just fine, if not better. I say this because the more expensive the hardware, the longer it will take to break even. 😅 Definitely join the nodestriches. Which I can’t tag. For some reason.

I joined @The Nodestrich ♾️ . Thanks for the info. I did purchase the Umbrel Home. My plan is to run a BTC node and lightning node and do my part to validate the networks and make a tiny bit of BTC on the side. I will set them up at look for other ways to earn some BTC.