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I tried maintaining my own lightning node and found it onerous, and did make me appreciate how easy centralized services make it look.

I have frequent seasonal power outaged and in consequence my channel partners punished me with unilateral closures. This experience, the fees, the necessary knowledge, and maintenance involved made me hope for an improved layer 2 to see instant cheap and anonymous payments become easier to truly self-custody and operate.

As a result lf this experience I learned to appreciate again Bitcoin's base layer.
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unautreendroit 2y ago

As a Breez user I encountered the same restriction. Is this an inherent limitation of non-custodial wallets? Would you know how this problem could be solved or where one can find how much progress is made on this?

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sathoarder 2y ago

It's a problem with mobile lightning nodes because a lightning address needs needs a webserver and that webserver and relies on DNS which only works well with a reasonably stable IP address. With a node setup at your home or busines or wherever, it's pretty easy to setup a self custody lightning address.