22nd June 2025

In reverse

BTC Prague did not generate a lot of activity on Orville this year. But some of the channels which had been sources, and which had very low or no outbound fee, started to behave more like sinks and vice versa. This did not generate income, but it balanced my channels and filled up the “traditional” sinks. I remind myself that my measure of success is not the amount of sats earned, but a low to zero number of failed HTLCs due to insufficient outbound on the channels. If HTLCs happen, less HTLCs fail, and the node is not bleeding sats, then all is well. Now I just stop rebalancing and wait to see if the sinks will go back to draining mode.