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MachuPikacchu | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Who would manage the lightning gateway?
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Derek Ross | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 This is a good question.
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MachuPikacchu | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 My understanding is that you can’t have multiple lightning nodes using the same key or you get unpredictable behavior. Maybe that’s just for routing nodes?

I wonder if we could somehow shard the private key using FROST so that outbound payments are still federated? I’m out of my depth on this one.
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Jestastic | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 What are the incentives? Sounds to me like the gateway carries all the risk and the costs.
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MachuPikacchu | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Hypothetically they could collect fees from the guardians periodically. Or if we can figure out how to federate the lightning node itself then each of the guardians could be partially responsible. Mints need to collect fees over time anyway or else they’re incentivized to rug and/or quit.