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I consider myself 'technically verse' and server setups is not a big deal for me. But when I looked into the topic of channel-management, rebalancing, etc. I realised that self-hosting Lightning is 'complicated'. So I won't run my own lightning node.

I understand the appeal of sending value in milliseconds by zapping. But with all these custodian customers, it's nothing more than the next commercial banking and no true p2p.

I hope to see more choice in BTC-scaling in the future.
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nobody 2y ago

I used to think the same but I recently setup another node and gave Lightning another go. There’s a bunch of new tools available now. I use Torq to automate the channel management and LightningNetwork+ to find peers.

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Thomas Paine 2y ago

Thank you for pointing out these new tools. I will check them out.

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Thomas Paine 2y ago

I installed the tools on my umbrel. I will reach out to you if I get stuck 😉

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nobody 2y ago

I noticed Torq having a lot of errors over the last 24 hours and my node being unreachable unless I hard restarted it. I’ve removed it to attempt to improve reliable uptime of my node.

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Thomas Paine 2y ago

I have to confess, I didn't set up any channels yet 🫣