A blanket statement without specifying the 85% that is actually not better privacy, I think, is more harmful than good. Mention custodians, mention the requirement to run your own node, the need to open channels with nodes that you know won't track. Definitely don't forget to mention your innovation on nostr zaps and the fact that anyone could call up the IRS, look at how many zaps you received/sent from your nostr profile and make the case that these micro transactions were for goods and services. Anyone can ask the IRS to audit anyone on here and the evidence is front and center, not encrypted or hidden. The person who tattles gets 40% of the cut without being taxed on it.
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You sound like a champion of moving goalposts
I think both sides could benefit from understanding the arguments better.
I'm convinced that if all lightning proponents ran their own nodes, provided they were able to get some channels setup, would abandon the idea after a few months. Not feasible for individuals to have 1mil sats up for liquidity when you can get forced closed. I can't imagine why people would think this is a scalable solution.
I run a monero node and use a hardware wallet. Never worried about that. My biggest concern with my lightning node is that it's a hot wallet and I don't fucking trust my ability to keep my server secure... Or I don't trust the amount of libraries all of the random programs I like to try not to have a shit ton of attack vectors. Wish there was a way to have a lightning node have to ping my phone or an external signing device of some sort to sign a transaction or whatever and store keys separate from the host. That's not possible right?
I have the oldest running lightning node since 2018 and somehow ive been fine
u r epic
Do you run wget "random scripts off the internet" | bash 🤣 Like I have stated other places... i am fucking retarded. I don't mind keeping a couple grand on one, but would love to really open up some fat channels and feel secure about it like my hardware wallet does.
I don't have a problem with you and Super debatably saying Lightning is roughly on par or having certain privacy advantages over Monero the way you use it...the problem is you're like the 1% of users who use Lightning this way jb
