In my view, that is an open drawback, and specifically, it’s a tough reply to questions like: “What is an effective node in your use case?”
As well as, there are questions like “To enhance the chance of success I have to have a number of channels opened?”
I attempt to reply these questions from my perspective, however I am open to discussing extra on this level.
On your use case, I believe it’s higher to open a channel with people who you already know, and specifically with individuals which are utilizing lightning community every day and never simply individuals with a few channels open with none utilization.
Now there may be a few questions, like:
- How yow will discover this node?
- There are websites like 1ml, lightningnetwork.plus the place yow will discover node rank by goodness with some definition of goodness.
- There’s one other web site that’s beginning as analysis, that’s lnmetrics.information the place yow will discover a listing of a node with the uptime for some vary of interval, it’s analysis and it’s beneath improvement, however I believe these comprise good node to begin, perhaps with a mix of web site it may assist. There’s additionally an API if you wish to see the metrics collected by the lnmetrics or see the lnmetrics specification
In conclusion, your query is unresolved these days, and we’re researching this drawback. We wish to give a simple reply to the person that wishes to begin with bitcoin and lightning with a small amount of cash, however in the mean time it’s straightforward to seek out nodes solely which have loads of necessities when it comes to cash, however for those who go a while to go looking yow will discover additionally your group of nodes to open a channel with.
As well as, I do not counsel opening solely a single channel with the precise state-of-the-art, however open a minimum of two channels, as a result of all of the implementation use the MPP (multi half funds) that often work higher with extra channels choices.