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Even LN is a suspect to me. My misconception was LN main purpose was to make small BTC payments feasible and deal with some the BTC privacy concerns.

It appears to me now that the big LN nodes are playing the role of the fiat centralized bankers while the everyday person doesn't have a chance at getting into the game.

So anyway, I hope I'm wrong about trading one master for another but that seems like a very strong possibility from where I stand today.
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Melchior 2mo ago

If you run your your own node and open a channel to a big routing node. They will take fees from your payment if it routs through them.

But you are in the worstcase always in control of the bitcoin on your side. This is a great difference to the legacy bank system. You can profit from your taken Responsibilty.

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Justin (shocknet) 2mo ago

And opening a channel to a big routing node is your choice, Lightning is just infinitely re-usable transactions, you can open a channel to anyone also running a node.