diff --git a/lightning_node_management.md b/lightning_node_management.md index 04de7db..343c424 100644 --- a/lightning_node_management.md +++ b/lightning_node_management.md @@ -383,3 +383,38 @@ plan their routes, so automated software will see it as a low quality attribute for routing nodes. I have decided to leave a weekly cronjob for now, so the fees will update automatically every thursday at 10pm. +## A small job + +Today I was randomly wandering through internet when I visited microlancer.io, +a small website I had already seen once or twice. The page hosts tasks, posted +by users, which come attached with Bitcoin bounties as compensation. + +Most tasks are crap, spammish-like stuff. But today I found one that simple +said "Open a lightning channel with my node". The task poster indicated in the +description that he would pay 2500 sats to whoever opened a channel of at least +750K sats of girth and kept it up for a month. His node's pubkey was also +posted. I checked it up and saw it was a very small node, with barely any +capacity. Way to small to be an interesting partner. But, 2500 sats was more +than enough to cover for the costs of opening and closing a channel with him, +so I decided I would give the task a shot to experiment. + +I signed-up at microlancer.io and offered myself for the task. The task poster +accepted (which came with him putting the 2500 sats in an escrow handled +through microlancer), and I went ahead and created a 1 million sats channel +with him. Afterwards, the poster marked the task as done and the escrow funds +were sent to me. I had received 2500 sats for opening the channel! + +That was a very nice experience. I think the channel will probably be useless, +but I will keep my promise and leave it up for at least a month. And the money +I got from this, even after accounting for channel opening and closing fees, is +several times more than what I got routing payments! I feel it has been like a +glimpse of the feeling I would get by providing liquidity in Lightning Pool. +I'm looking forward to get the node up to Tier1 so that the party can get +started. + +https://microlancer.io/task/view/2038 +The small node's pubkey: +02c94a8c40c64c511228c0ca4b393ccd0738d75e9229073ceb6328246de32b9a8b + + +