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Yeah, it's just one private channel to Start9 HQ and I can pay, receive, and zap from it. Super easy. There really is no "channel management" because it's not public. It's just your sats to worry about. Zeus connects right to my node like if you connected it to your custodial Alby wallet.

In StartOS you fire up the BTC node, LND, Ride The Lightning, and NWC. You can add Lightning Terminal for liquidity looping and LNBits for some managed lightning wallets if you want. All that stuff is installed like it's an app store. All in GUI, no CLI haxor crap.

Sid Shattuck 1y ago

You've inspired me to have another crack at this.

Where is the option to open a channel with Start9 presented to you?

Going to reinstall the stack tonight.

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mrecheese 🧀 1y ago

It's in the guide here: https://docs.start9.com/0.3.5.x/service-guides/lightning/lightning-first-channel

I can help with some stuff if you get stuck. I'm not an expert, but I have fooled with it quite a bit now.

My (possibly dumb) advice is open a channel twice as big as you need. If a million sats sounds good, open one for 2 million. Then you can loop out the extra million with Lightning Terminal and have that as inbound liquidity. You can dump KYC sats in there and then loop those out to help break the on-chain link to you.

Sid Shattuck 1y ago

Not dumb advice at all. Thats great advice. I've used boltz in the past to achieve a similar outcome. Will give terminal a go.

Thanks again!

mrecheese 🧀 1y ago

Just to add to all that, I have not played with Alby Hub, but it could be easier. I don't know how it works yet. It could be more centralized.