I've been running a #bitcoinlightning node for 4 months now. Down over 0.5% on my total added capacity, on top the electricity bill (small of course but still) and my "work" (it's a hobby so I don't count it). Are there really people out there who run those at a real profit? I mean a profit, that justifies the work put in? @Jeff Booth said you can generate 4% interest a year and tbh. 0.5% would already good enough for me I guess. But instead, I am even sub zero. Would appreciate some feedback on what I might be doing wrong. Should I stop doing any rebalance? Should I only connect to the large nodes and start competing in the fee-race with an app like Clboss/LNDG? Or should I simply quit and leave the table to actual business nodes? #bitcoin #lightning #bitcoinlightning #corelightning #lnd #core-lightning

I support and run #bitcoinknots, because I want node-software democracy. I am against how #bitcoincore devs merged a thing that was highly controversial, just like that. HOWEVER, I will go back to #bitcoincore as soon as #bitcoinknots does a #softfork. Seriously, keep #bitcoinknots aligned with the common network and do not become another #bitcoincash, that to this day has supporters on their subreddit believing that at some point someone will be holding their useless bags. If the #softfork happens, node democracy will be gone once again. I would appreciate more options! #bitcoin #node #softfork #bitcoinknots @Matthew Kratter @Luke Dashjr

An idea to make filters effective, instead of keeping them almost useless (because if miners don't care, they won't do much if I understand correctly): A bitcoin node that does filtering gets a block found by a miner who does not filter "spam". It will therefore not propagate it through the network for a full minute until it starts forwarding it, giving other miners that mine with the filter-software that additional minute to find a block that follows the own filtering rules? Would something like that work? This way, we use economical incentives instead of morales, which is the only thing that works without a huge effort, as of my current understanding. That additional minute is way more heavy than the little extra miner fee from the "spam". @Bitcoin Mechanic @Luke Dashjr #bitcoin-core #bitcoin-knots #bitcoin-nodes #bitcoin