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High fee times are when lightning is most needed/wanted, but also when it’s the most painful and costly to have something screw up. Good connectivity for reliably sending meaningfully sized payments without them failing isn’t cheap. You lock up a lot of capital in a hot wallet to maintain those channels with adequate liquidity, and a lot of time monitoring and backing up channel states. Lightning is amazing but running a full always-on node just to receive zaps is overkill and puts a lot more money at risk than what you might lose if a custodial wallet rugs.

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NotBiebs and 69 others 1y ago

Yeah I don’t run a node anymore unless you count using Phoenix as running a node. I’m glad the option to run my own node exists in case I ever have a need to do that again though.

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corndalorian 1y ago

Yea Breez, Aqua, and a small custodial balance does everything I need it to for now.

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