How many people run their own lightning node?
And how many receive zaps directly to that node?
And how many send zaps directly from that node without leaving their Nostr client?
Are you? If not, why not?
Discussion
I am, but 99% are not and are not capable to do so due to technical difficulties 🐶🐾🫡
What's the biggest technical hurdle you think?
Setting it all up and maintaining good and balanced channels. 🐶🐾🫡
I stopped rebalancing, dynamic fees are free and keep the flow going. But you'll need a number of channels for that.
Same here, but channels are not free. Good ones are even less so! 🐶🐾🫡
I’d love to learn. Just gotta make the time
It’s also expensive af. Custodial wallets are free, your own costs many times more than people think it will🐶🐾🫡
This is also a barrier for me tbh. Hoping to get one set up in the future but not doable yet lol
Not doable due to costs? Hardware costs, network fees, or something else?
Open channel, pay. Get incoming liquidity, pay. Rebalance, pay. Force close, pay. Hardware, pay. Etc… 🐶🐾🫡
Exactly. Lots of work to balance I’m sure lol
I’ve lost about 400K sats on my node just in pure channels and learnings. I am not even counting network, hardware, time and electricity 🐶🐾🫡
I run my on lnd node and I can send zaps, but Damus opens BlueWallet to do so. I haven’t figured out receiving zaps yet bc I think I need to set up a domain name and ln-url ?