Oddbean new post about login | logout Eh. It's not dumb. It's unfortunate. Running a Lightning node costs money. Opening and closing channels isn't free.
Yeah, they seen to just be on a downward trend for a while, I like the Alby team, but this seems like a bad decision for them as a company and Nostr, why not just increase fees on transactions if they aren't making enough.
It’s a business though right? I mean how else are they going to provide all those channels, unless you get an ad every time you’re zapped… If it’s done as a reasonable percentage I’m cool with that, if it’s a flat fee that would put me off. How do they currently pay people?
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One can easily set up a decent node under 250 USD. Its not that much.
i don't consider it overly expensive. i don't consider it overly hard. i would never expect anyone in my extended family or anyone i know IRL to ever do this though. we gotta think of the other 99% of the world when it comes to freedom technology. i realize that freedom isn't free or easy, but that doesn't mean that we can't build to target more of the people that need it the most either.
What exactly won't be free? The Custodial part right? So no free account or LN addresses?
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Oh, I thought that they were just revoking everyone's lightning addresses. My bad.
