Oxbase.com
A midsize routing node for a few lightning projects.
- Follow @oxbased for updates.
- Node Details on Amboss
- forwards / month: ~50M sats ($25k)
- Minimum new channel size >5M sats
Message me to open ballanced channels.
How I manage it.
I don't have any automation yet. Every week, I do the following.
Adjust Fees
- Lower fees 5% on channels with high local balances.
- Raise fees 5% on channels with low local balance and try to rebalance.
Balance Channels
Use services to balance their respective channels.
Circular Rebalances: This almost never works for me at reasonable fee levels.
Open / Close Channels
If on chain fees are low <20 sats/vbyte:
- Close channels that I can't re-balance.
- Open channels to services I use.
- Open channels to nodes I think will earn routing fees.
My Next Node
- Will be only a lightning node and nothing else.
- Still used a pruned bitcoin node to save hosting costs.
- Make 5M sats the minimum channel size.
- Use Balance of Satoshis to get more details about node interworkings.
- Write logic to manage channels how I've been doing manually.
- Don't use it as a wallet. Do routing only. Connect my wallet node to the routing node
Quick Links
Network and Chain Explorers
- amboss.space - lightning network explorer
- 1ml.com - lightning network explorer
- Acinq - lightning network map
- mempool.space - mempool trends and prices
- bitbo.io - quick dense bitcoin stats
- yalls.org/nodes - potentially good routing peers
Create Liquidity
- LightningNetwork+ - connects node operators to create chains
Provision a Lightning Node
- Run-LND - scripts to setup a lightning node on AWS or linux host
- BTCPayServer - open source bitcoin and lightning node with ability to create store
- lunanode.com - hosting provider that accepts lightning payments. Spin up BTCPayserver with just your api keys.
News and Information
- good twitter follows - Who I follow on twitter. Also good weekly spaces.
- investors podcast
- what bitcoin did
Random
- Connecting to nodes that have many >100 channels rarely route anything. I suspect this is because many of their channels are not balanced so most attempted transactions fail.
- When using Thunderhub to rebalance, many of the requests timeout because of my nginx settings from BTCPayserver.
- This is how you can edit the lnd settings in BTCPayserver.