Translations:Running A Profitable Routing Node/1/en

The profitability of a routing node is like for any business - revenue minus costs. Revenue consists of fees that your node collects when routing transactions. Costs consist of channel close/open fees, costs to move sats to your node, channel rebalance costs, and loop in/outs. Therefore, your node is profitable as long as revenue minus costs is positive. Tracking nodes's p&l on a weekly basis may give you a good idea of how your node is progressing towards profitability. It is important to have KPIs for your node which you can measure before you can improve it.