Merchant
Aimed for receiving payments, focuses on inbound liqudity
- minimal to buy incoming channels
- temporarily high to create incoming capacity from channels opened
- few (2-3) channels with well connected and capitalized nodes
- mostly remote
- high, but not perfect
- unavailability affects sales
- Close and Reopen when channels are filled up
- a channel open (and close) is not more expensive than using Loop given :
- have onchain liquidity for more channels (or splice in in the future) or
- can afford the channel downtime between peers to close and reopen
- Use liquidity ads to buy inbound
- Try Amboss Magma
- Advertise to receive inbound
- On-chain or off-chain sweeps may be necessary if Lightning wallet balance becomes too large
- An off-chain sweep can improve your privacy as well as give you inbound liquidity
- BTCPayServer on a VPS (acceptable with low amount of funds)
- Fully hosted solutions (trusted) - eg. Voltage
- Coming: Greenlight from Blockstream
- Offer to pay onchain for high value payments (miner fee < 0.5-1%)
Last modified 6mo ago