> to properly set up lightning takes anywhere between $500 to $5,000 dollars
you can properly set up lightning for $0 if you already have a laptop or an android device -- except for channel opening fees, each of which costs 1 btc transaction, i.e. 44 cents at current feerates
Well, yeah but the $500 was implying channel, and or hardware costs.
Usually having a dedicated setup for this would be ideal.
Just download electrum and open some channels
wait no, don't "just" do anything -- if you want decent privacy, you have to do more than that
Well, if you have well documented guides I'm all ears because so far I've explored Alby Hub/Alby Go, and Zeus.
But if there's something even better than those like electrum of course I'm open.
Unfortunately for me electrum, and stuff like that might take me some time to learn how to navigate.
I want to be as puritanical with lightning as possible as someone like nostr:nprofile1qqs9p3kw9e5u7za00x6jfz9jqsvvffheefaaptr9fdrzf4wqyh840kcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcegpufl perhaps, or others but it seems like the upfront set up can be somewhat problematic.
For me it's plausible but for the average person 80 to 100 iq person self-hosted lightning is an unrealistic ask.
Just install Zeus Wallet (it's a LN node that runs on your freaking phone), open 2-3 channels of 1M sats each to (good quality)peers and you are set. There's nl upfront cost besides few sats in tx fees for opening channels. You don't even need to let the app run 24/7.
