I’m considering to run my own Lightning node with a self-hosted Alby (npub1get…0nfm) Hub but I'm not sure I fully understand what that entails yet.
Here is what I’ve understood so far: Opening my own channel makes sense if I start with at least 100.000sats, though 1.000.000sats is recommended. I’d stick with 100k sats for now while I get my feet wet but I’d increase it as I gain experience and confidence in my node.
How do I decide if I run a private or public or private channel? So far I mostly use Minibits and Wallet of Satoshi for my zapping needs.
If I were to run a public channel intending on making a few sats by handling lightning transactions for others, how would anyone know of my channel? Do they even need to know my channel or would my peers offload some of their transactions to my node?
If I were to handle transactions for others, is there a good tutorial on how to debug transaction issues?
#asknostr #lightning
hermeticvm
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2025-05-26 14:00:05
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2025-05-26 14:00:05Event JSON
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