We also struggle with our self-hosted wallet.
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Lighting is pretty fun once you get it down. What was the struggle?
Everything, starting from the fact that we needed a lot of money to open a channel big enough to receive a little bit of money.
This is the UX problem I'm talking about...
Learning a lot in this thread. You sound like you know this stuff inside out, does cashu help with this UX problem in any meaningful way?
For small amounts, yes, but it requires more trust.
Trustless banking is going to be a privilege of the rich, I think.
There are promising L2s. Don't lose faith. Ark for instance. Also, Liquid is good for fast cheap transactions with barely any trust.
It does but as nostr:nprofile1qqs06gywary09qmcp2249ztwfq3ue8wxhl2yyp3c39thzp55plvj0sgprdmhxue69uhhg6r9vehhyetnwshxummnw3erztnrdakj7qguwaehxw309a6xsetrd96xzer9dshxummnw3erztnrdakj7qgkwaehxw309akkcettw5h8yetpd3ujumr0dshs2yykzg said, requires a LOT of trust. Unless you run your own mint of course. Which requires running lightning and now we're back at square one...
“A lot of money” is subjective, I can see your viewpoint. It does take a good bit of time to save in bitcoin before you can jump straight to node running but just a few 100,000/300,000 丰 channels can get you started in the right direction.
Remember, not your rack, not your stack
People can close the channels.
People can also leave channels open, I’ve personally never had someone close a channel on me, if you take the opportunity to ask another node runner to open a channel with them, 99% of the time they won’t close it on you.
It’s about building the network
