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@ -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