From ZmnSCPxj at protonmail.com  Sat Jul  2 02:58:10 2022
From: ZmnSCPxj at protonmail.com (ZmnSCPxj)
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2022 02:58:10 +0000
Subject: [Lightning-dev] Three Strategies for Lightning Forwarding Nodes
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Good morning Michael,

> Hey ZmnSCPxj
>
> It is an interesting topic. Alex Bosworth did a presentation at the Lightning Hack Day last year with a similar attempt at categorizing the different strategies for a routing/forwarding node (Ping Pong, Liquidity Battery, Inbound Sourcing, Liquidity Trader, Last Mile, Swap etc)
>
> https://btctranscripts.com/lightning-hack-day/2021-03-27-alex-bosworth-lightning-routing/
>
> It seems like your attempt is a little more granular and unstructured (based on individual responses) but perhaps it fits into the broad categories Alex suggested maybe with some additional ones?

I think all the broad categories Alex suggested have a common theme: all of them are public forwarding nodes.

What I point out in this writeup is the strategy that ANY public forwarding node may have.

For example, a node may select passive rebalance, wall, or low fee forwarding strategies, independently of whether or not it is JUST a forwarding node, or is a merchant / personal node in addition to being a forwarding node, or is selling inbound liquidity elsewhere, or is selling onchain-offchain swap services, or multiple of those.

It seems to me that the general forwarding strategy is orthogonal to the strategies that Alex presented.

Regards,
ZmnSCPxj