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Jestastic | 5 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +10 
 Running a lightning node is about taking back control of your money. 

Your node. Your rules.
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Derek Ross | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 And the patience to spend a week or two fixing it when things go sideways.
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Jestastic | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Full self-sovereignty is a hefty burden!

Some of us aren't ready to be hardware + software people, but there are some simpler first steps to wrest back control.
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Derek Ross | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I only say this as a friend recently spent weeks recovering his node and decided to give up after all of his on-chain funds were recovered from closed channels 🥹

Which is why I'm super bullish on nodes becoming so stupidly easy to deploy and manage from Zeus and Mutiny.