Yeah. I’ve been running a node for two years and still get nervous working with it.

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💯 It's not for the faint of heart. I'm happy there are people that do it of course.

It made me realize that a casual user or merchant is not going to set up a Lightning node for payments. That’s why I switched my focus on building an e-cash based payment system that looks like Lightning.

I agree, because most people don't have the time for managing and monitoring it even if they do have the funds to open adequately large channels.

Yup. In the early days of the internet ‘Be your own ISP’ never really took off, as I recall.

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