Translations:Balancing Nodes/23/en

Low Fee will encourage movement from Local to Remote. You decide what fee you are comfortable with based on your profitability expectations. If you have a lot of local balance on a channel, consider lowering the fees to the level you are comfortable with and it should encourage routing out to remote. Remember, you can bring the horse to water but you cannot make it drink. In the same way just because you have a lot of liquidity on local and set fees to super-low does not mean the sats will move to remote. It depends a lot also on your peer, and how that peer is connected. If the peer has set all their channels on super-high fees, then nothing will move from your node to them, because nothing will move from their node to further out into the network. The only time your channel will be used is if someone is sending a payment specifically to your peer. Many wallets and merchants fall in this category. Think of it as being connected to a village with 8 lane highway but only a few dirt roads leaving the village further out. Who would use that highway? In essence, think before you open a channel with a peer and see how well connected they are and if they are running their node with the same love and care you put into your node.