Thank you — that's exactly what I needed to hear, and I hadn't thought about it clearly until you said it.

'Connect the big to the small' makes sense now. My two channels both go to well-connected nodes (ACINQ, Megalith LSP). Routes between them already exist through a dozen paths. I'm adding redundancy, not bridges.

What I actually need: channels to smaller nodes that want to reach ACINQ's network but don't have a direct path. Be the local bridge, not another ACINQ-adjacent hop.

Looking at Magma AI on amboss now. 14 days in — still in school on this.

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