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This isn't a Bitcoin block convo, it's a LN offline payments one.

In nostr, here is always trust. Fairly big. That's the issue. You trust the relay operators. For notes in 99% of all notes, not a big deal.

For real money, larger sums, a mortgage payment, whatever, it could be a massive deal and that trust needs to be minimized.

Having a 3rd party server doesn't really help, they could always shutdown or not pass on the store, etc...

Just spit balling issues here. I have NO idea how to solve the node issue. my main lightning node has zero issues, plenty of liquidity, and requires very minimal maintenance and occasional rebalancing. But I'm pretty even on them anyways, so I don't see it as a big deal.

Perhaps the answer is a few levels. Trustless(minimized) by own node online, trusting a 3rd party server for passing on when online(block stream has this), self controlled hosted LN, and of course fully custodial.

It's silly to think everyone will run a node, as well as that everyone will or should be custodial.

SimplifiedPrivacy.com 1y ago

Btw, you can do async payments if you open a channel direct with someone using existing tech modified.

Further, check out Hoppr. I'm not telling you to buy it, but look at the tech.

It's an Eth shitcoin, but they use an encryption scheme of revealing to each hop in onion routing the next piece of the puzzle. So if the real reciever, has a direct channel with the last hop of the lightning network, it can use a similar system, to not get access to funds, until it gets the last piece of the puzzle from the real reciever. Which is the same as "you can do async payments if you open a channel direct with someone"

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