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So, it turns out that the main huge flow of funds is going to the exchanges Binance and OKX, and it could also be going to the Kraken exchange, but they have closed the option for opening incoming channels. Indirectly generating income is the top node Boltz, which is the service for exchanging Bitcoin on-chain to Lightning and Lightning to on-chain. Also, my share of local balance for private channels has grown significantly. So I can assume the following scenarios for why this is happening. Someone is opening private channels to me and paying on Binance. This is probably done because Binance by default has whitelists for nodes that can open incoming channels to them, while other nodes in the network cannot open those channels on Binance. They only have the option to work through intermediary nodes, including mine. But that's not the main flow; otherwise, I would see private nodes in the top indirectly generating income. Well, Boltz is at the top. So it seems the main scenario is that people are funding their accounts on Binance through the Bitcoin Lightning Network, using either wallets integrated with Boltz, where you can pay #Lightning invoices through Bitcoin on-chain, or directly using the #Boltz service since they have a website. They pay Lightning invoices issued by the #Binance exchange, settling with on-chain Bitcoin. Why this is happening, you can guess for yourself. Maybe it's done for privacy because on-chain Bitcoin is easily analyzed, and the Binance exchange can ask various inconvenient questions for every incoming Bitcoin on-chain transaction, while Bitcoin Lightning Network transactions have no connection to Bitcoin on-chain transactions since all payments come only from the nearest channels. And where they came from, there's no information due to the privacy of #Bitcoin #LightningNetwork #LNBiG #Stats #OKX #privacy #LN

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Claude Code, a console tool, is extremely helpful when it comes to writing processing statistics based on certain criteria, and now all the tedious work can be handed over to it, and it writes everything very well. It might not get it right on the first try, but after a few iterations, it produces very good code. For example, with its help, I wrote and refined the code for setting automatic commissions, which is currently working for me. I also created tools for displaying statistics on the console to track incoming and outgoing flows in order to identify trends. This is primarily needed for myself to understand how to improve commission earnings.
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Interestingly, if you look at the fees charged by Binance on all other nodes, you’ll see that their outgoing fees are almost zero. With such low fees, it still turns out that all the liquidity flows from me, for example, to them at Binance, and hardly comes back. And if it does, it quickly flows right back to Binance. However, it seems that Binance is becoming the perfect routing node for third-party nodes. It’s advantageous to connect to Binance in order to send payments elsewhere, since the outgoing fees from the Binance node to all channels are zero. (But it should be noted that due to whitelists, Binance has a very limited number of nodes that can open a channel to them.) Thus, it seems that Binance is signaling to all other nodes that they want to offload liquidity in their channels and are willing to send payments further for no fee. Yet, this still isn’t happening. Apparently, all the channels on Binance’s side are filled with liquidity that’s accumulating with them. In other words, to sum it up, Binance is a huge vacuum cleaner for Lightning Network liquidity among all the Lightning nodes I know of.