Definitely.
The LN is still being tested currently. Once it is fully released and people start using it, there will be routing fees.
Currently it is more like testing how payments in the future will look like
I'll be patient and wait for the Lightning Network to leave beta phase. I think it has some way to go before becoming a user-friendly second-layer solution.The LN is still being tested currently. Once it is fully released and people start using it, there will be routing fees.
Currently it is more like testing how payments in the future will look like
I think it's going to take a lot more time to see people making money off of routing fees than it's going to take to see it being used by people. The usability is more than half there now. But it's still difficult to make money running a node.
Actually this is probably the first actual question I've seen with interest in making fees from LN, since most users anyway (far as I could tell) were really just interested in using LN. The appeal of low/no fees and instant transacting aside, it's for me also personally useful to open channels with people I frequently transact with, almost as an additional layer of "trust" or familiarity. Definitely don't see how the potential for earning fees would encourage adoption, but I suppose I'm not thinking of business scale.
Running nodes isn't free, so i think fees in LN is totally acceptable. But IMO, there should be soft-limit such as less than 1% of transacted amount/less than 100 satoshi and default fees should be set to 0.
Also, without fees, there's chance attacker could attack certain nodes by spamming routing transaction and the cost would be very cheap.