[Lightning-dev] Increasing fee defaults to 5000+500 for a healthier network?

[Rusty Russell]

Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> writes:
> Olaoluwa Osuntokun <laolu32 at gmail.com> writes:
>> Defaults don't necessarily indicate higher/lower reliability. Issuing a
>> single CLI command to raise/lower the fees on one's node doesn't magically
>> make the owner of said node a _better_ routing node operator.
>
> No, but those who put effort into their node presumably have more
> reliable nodes, and this is a signal of that.
>
> Anyone have data on channel reliability that they can correlate with
> channel fees?

Actually, since lnd sends out a disable update for nodes which are
offline for > 20 minutes, we can simply look at the current gossip:

half-channels online: 45157
        percentage using 1000/1 fees: 56%
half-channels offline: 10225
        percentage using 1000/1 fees: 51%

So my assumption seems completely wrong here; if there's any
correlation, it's negative.

Cheers,
Rusty.