⚡️ How To Choose The Right Lightning Network Channels For Your Bitcoin Node

⚡️ Opening the right channels on your Bitcoin lightning network node can mean the difference between routing a payment once in a blue moon and routing tens, or even hundreds of payments every single day and earning thousands upon thousands of Satoshis. But where exactly are you supposed to learn how to choose and open the right channels?

Because of the competitive nature of running a Bitcoin lightning node, people are not exactly volunteering the information on what they're doing. Routing channels are well stick around because in this video, I'm going to show you how I choose the channels that I open, how I validate, which are channels worth opening, and which are nodes that I want to partner with and how I have gone to increasing my routing tenfold using this exact method.

Whether you're running an Umbrel node, RaspiBlitz, myNode, or any other Bitcoin node, this guide will help you better choose your channels and earn more on Lightning Network!

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[Bitcoinftm]

So, what are some of YOUR favorite things to look at when choosing which channels to open?

[danieloshaughnessy]

How many channels and how much capacity per channel would you say is sufficient for the minimum to get started?

[gnentrepreneur]

Hello, awesome content, the thing is that I do not know how to read the numbers and what exactly means inbound and outbound how to really understand what to look for...would be nice a video were you explain it like I'm 5 years old...thank you and getting in there but not quite yet...you are a great tutor by the way!

[weyder]

Great content, keep it coming, just conected a node to you, do you use charge-lnd or any other script to automate fees? Thx

[gracienlebel]

awesome video, really useful, thanks for your effort Jonathan

[urgetodrive]

2:40 FYI, they added recommended nodes...just looked at my channel and had a slew of recs (including 1 or 2 which I am already peered with...weird).

[mattjohnson]

great presentation style, you are effective at taking complex processes and making them entertaining and easy to follow. I think if I watch it 3 more times I'll be ready to open a channel

[xandergaldones]

awesome man, on your next blog can you share about watch towers, proper techniques in setting fees for channels. many thanks!

[endthefed]

So far, almost 4 minutes in, everything that you've done seems pretty arbitrary as if you have some kind of knowledge of something going in that I don't understand how you got. By the way I'm very tech savvy I've been developing software for 40 years.

[endthefed]

at 8:39 you mentioned the term "one boat". what is a boat?

[Salty_Crayon]

One thing Ive never figured out without asking the node operator is, how much liquidity on my end is required to open a channel with them? Could you cover that when opening channels?

[endthefed]

How did you know what to enter in the very first field on terminal web? Lapistano?

[stevenvanbelleghem]

Very good explanation, thanks!! keep up the good work!

[Ryan-xqkl]

Can you please cover your method of re balancing through fees instead of through circular? I think this makes a lot of sense and is more or less how I initially planned to do my routing before I discovered re balancing.