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 If today isn’t a great advertisement for running your own node, I don’t know what is. 
 8billion nodes?

lol no 
 No, of course not. But everyone who can probably should. 
 Looks like Umbrel might have a pretty good deal starting tomorrow too, good timing! 
 Wat happened? I'm outta the loop :( 
 OK I scrolled a little and found out  
 Or at least use self-custodial Wallets in LN 
 Just offloaded WOS onto my own node… definitely a safe harbor to have! 
 I have been running a Bitcoin full node for a long time now, but running a lightning node still gives me the creeps, because I've still not found an easy way to backup the channels completely and without risk to loose the funds later.  
  cool 😎 
 Why?