What changes to do a "Ring of fire" compared to connecting directly to a large node like that of Wallet Of Satoshi (WOS)and then rebalancing via swap / loop? Doing a ROF, in the end you have 2 channels, one opened by you, and one on the other side, so by investing for example 1M, you have 2 million capacity. Then it often rebalances, so by spending the cost of an opening, you have doubled the capacity and balanced 2 channels. If, on the other hand, you open towards WOS 2 million, it costs you the opening and the LOOP (which is not cheap) However, when you open to nodes like WOS, don't rebalance, as traffic will always flow in the direction of WOS. If anything, you will have to rebalance when the channel is completely emptied from the outbound
