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utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻

You don't need to run a node and hold keys to accept a 13 cent zap, just chill lol

Storing your life savings is a very different context then sending and receiving nanopayments on nostr

I think we should be encouraging the easiest UX for this function, not the "safest"

(is it even safe to run a lightning node if you don't know what you're doing?)

Anthony Accioly 1y ago

This 👇. And I'll even say the quiet part out loud (speed-running my way to being muted by "Nostr influencers"): A custodial Lightning wallet loaded with a few thousand sats isn't a crime against BTC.

Even if you lose all your sats—and chances are, if you pick an established wallet, you won't—I can pretty much guarantee that you'll lose more than a few thousand sats over time trying to manage Lightning channels on such a small scale. Not to mention the cost of buying dedicated hardware plus a UPS, or renting someone else's hardware in the cloud.

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The Beave 1y ago

Slight counterpoint: all in... I'll be at about $750 in hardware for my self-sovereign hardware when I get what I need to run a BTC and lightning nodes. (I'm mostly there. Just need some more drives.) I can afford to do that. I think that the knowledge I'm gaining is worth more than that fiat. It can be done cheaper, but... Maybe not better at this time.

That being said, WoS just friggin works. 😁🤣

Anthony Accioly 1y ago

I support the hobby if it brings you joy. And sure, it can open great doors for you in the future. But personally, having $700 worth of BTC in my outdated cold wallet and maybe $50 in a functional Lightning wallet to play around with "new stuff" on Nostr makes me happier.

The Beave 1y ago

Yup. Sure. But, I need to learn this so I can do other stuff in the future. Being able to run nodes and relays is kind of a side bonus.

The dumb thing is that I low-key hate all of it. 😅

Anthony Accioly 1y ago

Have fun (or not but keep coming back like I do🤣). I’ve killed my Umbrel VM. Feeling kind of done with Lightning. My experiments with NWC were also "meh" at best. I might try again in a couple of years, but for now, no LND node or NWC for me. I may decide to run a Bitcoin Core node on bare metal Linux, but for now, my setup is a custodial Lightning wallet for day-to-day stuff and a cold BTC wallet that still needs a micro USB cable.