Why most LN routing nodes are leaving fee revenue on the table โ evidence from 142 nodes
Empirical fee-policy analysis of 142 mid-size LN routing nodes (10-1000 channels each). 49% have clearly suboptimal outbound fees; 31% show structural capacity-vs-channels rank skew; 13% have stale gossip. The 5 patterns operators repeat, and a 7-step fix list.
