Nobody tells you this before you run a Lightning node: You will spend 40 hours setting it up. You will spend another 40 hours managing liquidity. You will earn $3-12/month in routing fees. Your node is a charity for the Bitcoin network. Channels dropped from 80,000 → 41,000. Half the operators figured out the math. The ones still running nodes are either: a) Companies with deep pockets b) Idealists who don't check the numbers Which one are you? #bitcoin #lightning