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"Lightning nodes are dangerous hot wallets", they said.

After 5 years, 15000 nodes and 5 BTC hanging in these poorly-run, amateurish hot wallets exposed to the open internet, not a single attack was noticed. What do we think about that?

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sms 2y ago 💬 2

The average node has at most 33M sats in it - likely much less in oubound liquidity it controls.

https://1ml.com/statistics

My guess, it’s not worth the trouble for any competent thief.

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fiatjaf 2y ago

If the average is so small, that means there must be a pretty big number of nodes that have a lot more than that.

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sms 2y ago

Yes, for now those are big commercial nodes and other competent operators.

My bet is that a widespread heist is just a matter of time. :(