In the third part of my Lightning Network review I bought goods and services with Lightning, with varying degrees of success. Today, I’ll try to close all of the channels and hopefully recover most of my funds.

Today’s review is more of a demonstration. I hope you enjoy the change in format.

TL;DR: Operating the largest node on the Bitcoin Lightning Network has been educational, frustrating, fun, and at times terrifying. I look forward to trying it again once the technology matures.

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Parts of the review

Checking in on the Lightning node

It’s been a over a week since I last inspected the Lightning Node. Are the funds still there?

I connect to my Lightning Node node.

~ ssh andreas-tries-lightning-network

The funds are still there. My Lightning Node has routed 389 payments, making a profit of $0.34. I suspect the increase is mostly from the recent increase in bitcoin’s price.