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.

  • Move sats to Coinos.io wallet.
  • Withdraw sats from River.com.
  • Send sats to my Wallet of Satoshi

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

Network and Chain Explorers

Create Liquidity

Provision a Lightning Node

News and Information

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.