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This was me a couple years ago after having fun with a node and then realizing how foolish it was to keep tens of millions of sats online in a hot wallet 24/7 just so I could send and receive a few thousand sats here and there. 😂
😬 This is not how we win, sir.
Bitcoiners set an unrealistic and unnecessarily high bar for adoption when they demand 100% self custody in regards to lightning. That is how we lose. How we win is by being reasonable and responsible with what we advise others to do.
1000%. If you aren't a sysadmin expert, you probably should not be running an LN node. You're at way higher risk of fucking something up than getting rug pulled by a custodial wallet
Yea. Not a node runner. Non custodial lightning address is hard. Tried to make sense of Zeus. Gave up and settled on Mutiny+, only to discover that fedimint just got borked. Guess I’m still stuck using kyc custodial wallet.
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Everyone has their own risk analysis and trade /offs.
For me I just stick to this personal program for the time being since time is of my upmost importance.
There is a lot more I could add to this but you get the point. 😂 
Alby has a self-custody feature launching soon that will put it in the middle category.
I think changing the verbiage on how we define each sector of security is beneficial to the education of the users.
Mostly what we lack is differentiation when we talk “wallets” to new users. I feel the analogies are better serving.
That’s because there is not really a 1:1 comparison between the digital world and their physical counterparts. Every instance of the word “wallet” in relation to bitcoin is inaccurate, yet it still persists after 15 years because we don’t have anything else to call it that anyone will understand.
Yeah... I get the most use out of my lightning node for DCA so I don't need to buy big amounts or do consolidation tx. Much easier.
I mostly run my routing node so I have liquidity ready to go when I want to use it. Custodial lightning is too expensive.
Expensive taxes you say?
Phoenix, Breez and Zeus offer non-custodial without channel management. Just open one channel large enough for your monthly Bitcoin Lightning expenses and refill it once empty using swap from your on-chain cold storage wallet or another intermediate hot or cold wallet like you topup a Revolut card or similar.
That's the best of both world between a Bitcoin full node with Lightning routing node and cusodial lightning.
You could also run a full node and juste open a couple of unannonnced channels with the amounts you need to spend. You can even use BTCPay Server + Breez SDK or LNbits + Phoenixd for auto-channel management. There are options for every use cases and scenarios.
#Self-sovereign
If you need, you can use mine. 🤙
You just need to register without KYC and you're ready to receive sats.
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