Quote from: franky1 on Today at 02:18:25 PM

(i laugh when someone asks how to support bitcoin and replies try to promote another network(facepalm))
running a lightning node is not about bitcoin. dont let people fool you. its a different network and a risky network, where many people lose their funds. (even lightning devs have lost their own funds using it, and they are suppose to be the experts)

also if you dont have much funds then when you lock up your value and then allow others to route through you, because your balance is low your route wont be a optimum roue for many users and you may end up spending more of your value to re-balance yourself after people use you as a route.
the small fee's do you get for offering your balance may not offer you profit compared to the cost to re-route your funds in another longer(expensive) path to rebalance your channel(s), or the cost to open and close the channel.. so do research and dont be lulled into some fake promotions where people pretend lightning is the better profitable network

the lightning network does not help contribute to bitcoin. it infact is the agenda of causing people to use bitcoin less because they are being forced away from using bitcoin and instead told to use the lightning network. so dont be fooled by all the shenanigans of the subnetwork support group trying to promote another network as "bitcoin"

Yes thank you for this piece of advice, I already tried and I was a bit lost with those channel things and saw many people say they lost funds experimenting with it and I'm not experienced enough to play with this and the very small amount of BTC I have. Also I understand that if you don't have much, people won't use your "routes" and you will not make money out of it.

I think as said before your post, that promoting bitcoin and using it are the best things I can do now