Comment by btc_throwaway1337 on 02/01/2018 at 23:25 UTC*

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I have questions related to this, just as an average tech / cs geek:

If I wanted to host a mainnet lightning node once it's ready, is it possible?

If so, would an Atom box be good enough?

Is it also necessary to run as a full node / are they related?

Is it also necessary to "seed" the LN / channel(s) I'd host with actual BTC (presumably my own)?

I would be interested in doing this to support the community. Any small fees I may collect would be a bonus (likely to make up for bandwidth and power consumption). I assume another bonus would be making my own lightning transactions cheaper by using my own channel as the entry-point... if I understand it correctly?

TIA for any enlightenment here! :-)

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