Last Notes
Please note that we had a power outage in our area and a faulty UPS. Repairs are underway, ETA Tuesday, Apr-30 EOB SAST. Apologies for the inconvenience, please do not force close.
Running a routing node is a labour of love 🧡
bekind_ZA🇿🇦 stats for the week 2023-06-18 to 2023-06-24:
No of forwards: 394 (+25%)
No of channels: 51 (-4%)
Value routed: ~6.8m sats (-12%)
Profit: 286 sats (-34%)
Costs: 33293 sats (🤯 2x FCs)
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bekind_ZA🇿🇦 stats for the week 2023-06-04 to 2023-06-10:
No of forwards: 350
Value routed: ~16.7m sats
Profit: 523 sats
Costs: 28199 sats (FCs 😟 )
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bekind_ZA🇿🇦 stats for the week 2023-05-28 to 2023-06-03:
No of forwards: 348
Value routed: ~20.5m sats
Profit: 488 sats
Costs: 0 sats
A good, uneventfull week: Stable, continuous flow of routed payments 🧡
bekind_ZA🇿🇦 stats for the week 2023-05-20 to 2023-05-27:
No of forwards: 165
Value routed: ~11m sats
Revenue: 607 sats
Costs: 0 sats
Experimenting with Lightning Terminal Autopilot for tweaking fee rates.
bekind_ZA🇿🇦 stats for the week 2023-05-13 to 2023-05-20:
No of forwards: 148
Value routed: ~10m sats
Revenue: 438 sats
Costs: 46k sats (due to channel openings)
Sold our first batch of liquidity offers on Magma this week. Humble experience. We saw it as an advantage to learn, even it's been a net-loss overall due to our high on-chain fee situation: It becomes more and more obvious that we have to pivot to batch opening channels for efficiency / cost-savings.
bekind_ZA🇿🇦 stats for the week 2023-05-06 to 2023-05-13:
No of forwards: 108
Value routed: ~0.7m sats
Revenue: 21 sats
Costs: 33k sats (devastating FC fees)
Struggling with Loadshedding Stage 6 (+ 10h power outage / day). Upgrading to a larger UPS soon.
This, too, shall pass...
We joined #[0] in their 0/0 fee experiment, experiencing a 10x in routed payments in the first week. Scaling #Lightning requires volunteers with altruistic motives. We're committing to be one of them!
bekind_ZA🇿🇦 stats for the week 2023-04-28 to 2023-05-05:
No of forwards: 433
Value routed: ~15.5m sats
Revenue: 581 sats
Costs: 0 sats
We're offline due to a large power outage in our area. Please do not force close. We will be back online soonest!
bekind_ZA🇿🇦 stats for the week 2023-04-08 to 2023-04-15:
No of forwards: 42
Value routed: ~3.7m sats
Revenue: 310 sats
Costs: 0 sats
bekind_ZA🇿🇦 stats for the week 2023-04-01 to 2023-04-07:
No of forwards: 57
Value routed: ~4.4m sats
Revenue: 313 sats
Costs: 1721 sats