I see - thank you. How to I discover nodes - is there any UI to see nodes currently running on the network ?
> 3. How do I find out if someone wants to connect to me? > The node connects to yours and sends channel funding messages. In this case there is some kind of an UI where I can accept or reject - correct? Or I auto-accept everyone that connects to me? > If you intend to connect for the purpose of becoming a hub and earning > routing fees, if you have some onchain bitcoins you can afford to invest, > then it is to your interest to channel with relatively new and > low-connectivity nodes. If I become a hub, how much to I earn, approximately in routing fees? Is it a percentage of transactions? Are routing fees the same for all hubs? If I am connecting to the network and see many hubs - how can I select which hub to connect to? Is there any performance/reputation info available for any hub? On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 2:36 AM, ZmnSCPxj <[email protected]> wrote: > Good morning Stan, > >>1. How do I select the nodes to peer with? > > By whatever selection criteria you wish. > > In practice, lnd offers an "auto-pilot" where it selects peers to channel > with automatically using some heuristic (which I do not know). My > understanding, c-lightning will eventually offer a similar feature at some > point in the future. > > Presumably node gossip will let you learn of other nodes that you might > channel with in the future. > >>2. How do I make them to do deposits - ideally I want them to match $100 >> each. > > Currently, channels are initially single-funded. There is a proposal > https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/pull/184 for dual-funded > channel setup, but did not make it into 1.0. > >>But since they are presumably already sufficiently connected to >>the network, why would they lock more funds? > > It helps to consider that you are not particularly special, and neither are > the existing nodes on the network particularly special. > > If you have a reason to open a channel to an arbitrary node, then other > nodes have a reason to open a channel to an arbitrary node, which might be > you. Even if the network grows large, that also means there are more > participants who might decide, via whatever heuristic, to channel to your > node. > > If you intend to connect for the purpose of becoming a hub and earning > routing fees, if you have some onchain bitcoins you can afford to invest, > then it is to your interest to channel with relatively new and > low-connectivity nodes. Such nodes might receive payments and if you are one > of the few routes (or the only route) you then get a higher chance of being > routed through. Inverting this, if you have a new node with a few channels, > others aspiring to become hubs will want to lock spare funds to channel to > your node in case you become a very prolific user (sender or receiver) of > the network in the future. > >>3. How do I find out if someone wants to connect to me? > > The node connects to yours and sends channel funding messages. > > Regards, > ZmnSCPxj _______________________________________________ Lightning-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lightning-dev
