Joost Jager [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2023-02-15 🗒️ Summary of this message: Running a high ...

📅 Original date posted:2023-02-15
🗒️ Summary of this message: Running a high availability channel on the Lightning Network requires maintaining outbound liquidity by opening new channels, rebalancing, or swapping in. Publicly visible data may not be representative of the network as a whole.
📝 Original message:
>
> But how do you decide to set it without a credit relationship? Do I
> measure my channel and set the
>
bit because the channel is "usually" (at what threshold?) saturating in the
> inbound direction? What
> happens if this changes for an hour and I get unlucky? Did I just screw
> myself?
>

As a node setting the flag, you'll have to make sure you open new channels,
rebalance or swap-in in time to maintain outbound liquidity. That's part of
the game of running an HA channel.


> > How can you be sure about this? This isn't publicly visible data.
>
> Sure it is! https://river.com/learn/files/river-lightning-report.pdf


Some operators publish data, but are the experiences of one of the most
well connected (custodial) nodes representative for the network as a whole
when evaluating payment success rates? In the end you can't know what's
happening on the lightning network.
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