Replying to Avatar Nick Slaney

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Lightning is very much living, it is more alive than any mailing list or Twitter post about scaling bitcoin. It has 100k+ channels over 5 years of main net, btc-at-risk miles on it.

We know the flaws of lightning intimately because we’ve been using it, and testing it and improving it.

X miracle bitcoin scaling solution is in fantasy land and due to not existing at any scale is as good as dead. They’re fun to think about though.
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Dr. Bitcoin, MD 2y ago

I need to learn how to run a lightning node.l safely…easier

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Nick Slaney 2y ago

The beauty of the current state of lightning tech is you don’t need to know how to run a node to use it in a self custodial way. Breez or Phoenix are great starts, you just see a payment app, the node and all the complexity of lightning is underneath

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Dr. Bitcoin, MD 2y ago

True. But coming from the position of someone who has his seed phrase off line stamped in titanium, backing up a lightning node seems rather…tricky.

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code monkey 2y ago

Me too, I want to run a full node and also get lightning setup, I did some research but never got too far with it. Doesn't look too difficult and seems like a great time to start.

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Dr. Bitcoin, MD 2y ago

Consolidate your UTXOs and learn how to make long standing lightning channels. Ideally, something with back and forth action to keep channel alive