I'm more than a little skeptical about the quality of software that uses the lightning network.

- I've already hit a bug in LND and added into to the existing ticket about it

- Offered suggestion on lnbits for a confusing error message

- Tried sending using Bluewallet -> LNDHub, failed

- Tied adding a specific amount in the invoice, failed with a different error message "API error: undefined (undefined code)"

- Tried doing the same with Zeus, claimed it was successful despite no money being transferred

- Found LND mysteriously shut down again (no reason cited in the logs)

- Tried sending money from LNBits, no error, no money transferred

- Seeing messages in the lnbits logs that "This backend does nothing" but doesn't say which backend it thinks it's using. The web UI shows it's using LndRestWallet, not VoidWallet

- Eventually I was able to get LNBits to give me an error saying I have insufficient funds to pay (I have 30K and was trying to pay 1K)

And on top of all this NWC with Amethyst/CoinOS has been broken for weeks (yes, I reconnected and it's still broken).

This is why people use custodial wallets instead of running their own node!

It's almost as bad as having Zeus fail and force close Olympus channels that I paid for because they're "too old". It's not quite that bad, but close.

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