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corndalorian | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Individual self custody is a great thing. It’s also unnecessary for pocket change amounts of money. Decide your own risk levels of course, what you’re comfortable losing. But it’s foolish to demand that people use 100% only self custodial solutions when they’re sure to lose more money in the process than they would leaving a few bucks on a custodial wallet or mint.
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Bill Cypher | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Individual full self custody zaps is at least possible with LN but isn't with ecash.

I do understand the tradeoffs, I use alby for zaps even though I run my own lightning node as anyone can look and see. 

The community seems to have moved away from the idea of staging custody and security based on amount to all or nothing in the posts I read. I'm happy with staging, it is an effective and pragmatic approach. I want devs to work on making it easier to self custody smaller higher turnover amounts instead of constantly swapping out one custodial solution for another. It is an illusion of progress where there is only wasted effort.