I bought a new domain for my LN node btw -- pleb.channel. At the moment, it's redirecting to my old meme url goblin-no.de, but whenever I have some time, I might do something useful with it. Ideas are welcome.

Another month is coming to an end in the Lightning realm.

This month has been something else. I've never experienced anything like it during my 3 years of running a routing node.

May 14th was particularly crazy. I routed ~7 btc on that day, with about 5 btc alone on my channel with LOOP. I have a 1 btc channel with them, and it kept getting drained at ~3500-4000 ppm, while I was able to rebalance the channel at about 2500-3000 ppm. Here is an example from my telegram bot (all these forwards happened instantaneously).

Before the day was over, I was over 1M sats in profit. Looking at my node's previous performance, I made about 3 months profit in one day.

The traffic slowed down somewhat after that, but this month has still been out of the ordinary. The APY this month on the btc I've tied up on my node is 6%. That's pretty wild. Here are my statistics for the past month.



Let's break down the numbers. During the last 30 days, I've routed ~50 btc. My revenue is 0.12 btc and I've paied 0.089 btc in rebalancing my channels, making a profit of 0.031 btc.

However, during all my years of routing, the APY is on a more moderate level of 0.6%.

Relax, this is a bitcoin forum. Fuck politics. We're all winners here.

Relax, this is a bitcoin forum. Fuck politics. We're all winners here.

Jazz. Hello?

cAPS, I'm really happy you're posting again. Gives me a reason to visit, please don't stop.

Jazz 

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Sorry, I'm a bit of a retard when it comes to understanding emojis and all that.

Thailand has been my 2nd home for the past 8 years. We have an apartment in Bangkok as well. During all my years there, I have never felt unsafe walking alone late at night. I feel much safer there than I do in my home country (Sweden).

The traffic on the other hand, that's where I should be worried. The risk of getting in a traffic accident is like 10x higher than my home country. My brother-in-law nearly got killed a couple of years ago when he was rammed by a car while he was driving his motorbike.

That's the final cost actually, including windows, AC, flooring and what not.

This is Thailand, so material and labor is very cheap compared to any western country.

Our new vacation home is taking shape.



It's amazing what 0.5 btc will give you, considering what I paid for it back in the days.

Now it may sound cheap, but a decade from now, the same amount will probably be enough for a big mansion.

We're above $100k, you gotta add beef to that sandwich.

Damn, my guess was one day off. Anyway, happy $100k y'all.

Last time under $100k?

Thanks for your insight. I've read up on the Nvidia rumors, that's huge if true. The US, even bigger. Interesting times.

Next friday, May 9th

Wait, what. This is extremely bullish.

Regarding the Arizona bill, Governor Hobbs is known to veto most of the bills, let's not get our hopes up there.

GameStop I agree with you, Ryan Cohen has been hinting this a long time.

Nvidia is new to me, do you have any sources?

The US selling gold to buy bitcoin -- I believe it when I see it.

Haha, yeah that's me. Give it some time, we'll be in the green soon.

I'm in. I aped and went all-in. There's more steam in this train.

Yes, that version.

I used to run a knots node a couple of years back, but I switched back to core later. A bit worrisome running a node which code is only maintained by one(?) guy..

I'm a bit out of the loop, but I've seen this discussion taking up some of my X feed lately. I need to read up what this is all about.

The past few weeks in the LN space have been out of the ordinary, the forwards have been on steroids. Here are a few examples from the past couple of days



I'm over 1M sats in profits in the past 30 days, f*cking crazy.

Yeah, I was following this story through @ZachXBT on X. Really sad story, I feel for the elderly couple. Zach also mentioned the btc originated from "interesting" sources. Intriguing, I want to know more.