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@ -157,4 +157,33 @@ A few links to interesting stuff that I got from Lopp's post:
scores on any node. Good for judging candidates for channel opening. scores on any node. Good for judging candidates for channel opening.
- [Lightning conductor](https://lightningconductor.net/receipt), which offers - [Lightning conductor](https://lightningconductor.net/receipt), which offers
liquidity services including a pretty convenient services to open an incoming liquidity services including a pretty convenient services to open an incoming
channel with an on-chain transaction. channel with an on-chain transaction.
## First night...
I'm writing this as I wait for some channels to open successfully. Finally,
today was the day I started my routing node!
As planned, I moved 0.2 BTC from cold storage to the umbrel wallet. I looked
for a pretty looking node and opened a channel with them and, voila, it worked!
I opened another, smaller one with another smaller node, but Thunderhub didn't
let me. I learned that Thunderhub only allows you to have one pending channel
opening at a time. So I had to wait a bit to create a second one.
Once I successfully opened those two channels, I headed to
lightningnetwork.plus and joined a triangle. It was almost by accident. I was
checking the triangle swap page when I hit the application button and, boom, it
was closed. The page was giving me some instructions on how to proceed and I
kind of just followed through without much thinking. It felt like heaven when I
saw my incoming partner channel opening towards me. This swaps thingy is great!
The only issue I see is that my partners quality is pretty low. One of them is
pretty old, but has almost no capacity. The other one is super new, but is
growing pretty fast. Oh well, I guess it's better than nothing!
I have realised that the fancier swaps are restricted by channel number and
total capacity, so it seems that I should try to step up my game slowly, always
trying to get the best possible partners and then letting my fresh open
channels mature a bit so that I earn some street creed that allows me to get
into more exclusive swaps.
I can already tell it's gonna be quite a few nights of little sleep...