Been running mine for years. Very little cost, lots of transactions (mostly out, V4V and online stores). Now mining. Learned tons. Had many good peers drop due to node blow-ups and apathy. Smaller channels with friends/plebs are pretty easy and don't take a lot of capital. At one point I had a small group and we each had one main channel a different LSP, so payments rarely had issues.
If you're just sending basic zaps, just get a small LSP channel for cheap and zap away. No channel management really needed.
Being self sovereign is worth it.
mIX
npub1sl…enwpw
2026-05-28 00:42:22 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…wfcn
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