"Run a node"??? People who used Phoenix wallet ran a node.
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Make your own channels? 🥲
Hardly…
They very much did. Is the new advice now for noobs to run a routing node?
Phoenix mobile
1. depends on electrum (no onchain privacy unless you point to your own
2. requires you to trampoline thru their node (no sender privacy)
3. only allows channels to the ACINQ node (exposes your balances)
Use something that doesn’t do all this crap.
That's not what's implied by saying "run a node." Most people will get rekt running their own full fledged routing node, which is implied by the statement. Many people who have run nodes like that have decided not to do so because of the costs and risks of loss of doing so. Phoenix made a fucked up decision with this move but prior to this they were the recommended self custodial lightning wallet by many many many bitcoiners. Why is their advice to run a node now any better? You'll get people rekt by encouraging them to do something they have no technical ability to do.
Or they can just run Zeus, run the node in the phone, enjoy great defaults, not be locked in to our LSP node, and be able to keep using it if we disappear or can no longer serve their market.
Talk is cheap. We’ve been building and shipping it.
Not only Zeus. Breez and Blixt are other good options. But again, that's not what "run a node" implies. It's retarded to advise people to run a node because what it implies is to run a full fledged lightning node.
Your advice is shitty rn.
You offer no solution and imply people should use custodial solutions and/or KYC.
Where did I suggest this at all? This is a bad look for you putting words in my mouth.
If you don’t run your own node you’re using someone else’s. Discouraging people to not do it is dangerous especially considering all the people who potentially got burned this week.
It’s irresponsible.
There’s no such thing as “KYC Bitcoin”
"Full fledged routing node" and mobile nodes suffer the same root lightning problems that cause loss of funds - force closures and stuck htlcs
Yes but a mobile node with a single private channel for making payments experiencing a force close is much less problematic the issues encountered when running a routing node with dozens of public channels.
Kinda but not totally
Run a node on raspi
