The amount of people using custodial lightning wallets is terrifying. People here on nostr are so obsessed with their zapping events, but for most participants there's hardly any difference to using paypal, venmo, instant sepa, etc.
Bitcoin became a pop-culture.
I disagree
...and that's fine for me. 😃
Do you plan to provide a link from your self hosted lightning node to your nostr profile so you can receive zaps?
I consider myself 'technically verse' and server setups is not a big deal for me. But when I looked into the topic of channel-management, rebalancing, etc. I realised that self-hosting Lightning is 'complicated'. So I won't run my own lightning node.
I understand the appeal of sending value in milliseconds by zapping. But with all these custodian customers, it's nothing more than the next commercial banking and no true p2p.
I hope to see more choice in BTC-scaling in the future.
I used to think the same but I recently setup another node and gave Lightning another go. There’s a bunch of new tools available now. I use Torq to automate the channel management and LightningNetwork+ to find peers.
Thank you for pointing out these new tools. I will check them out.
I installed the tools on my umbrel. I will reach out to you if I get stuck 😉
I noticed Torq having a lot of errors over the last 24 hours and my node being unreachable unless I hard restarted it. I’ve removed it to attempt to improve reliable uptime of my node.
I have to confess, I didn't set up any channels yet 🫣
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