Stan Kladko <[email protected]> writes: >> 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 I am connected to some nodes, but no one connected to me, then all > of my deposit is used by me only, and is not used by other nodes. > If I am routing nodes through my node, then it can potentially > negatively affect availability of my deposit for my own transactions. > So it seems to me that the best strategy is to connect but accept no > incoming connections. > > How much real is this problem?
I don't think it is. If you have two channels, then people routing through you doesn't effect your total capacity, it just shifts them between the channels. Hope that helps, Rusty. _______________________________________________ Lightning-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lightning-dev
