What do you do with those sats? If you open a channel of 1M to a service that provide VPNs, and you paid 200k sats, when you close the channel, you get 800k less fees. If we are talking about routing, those 200k that goes through your channel was receive in another channel, so your balance in LN is the same.

I had an ok time with umbrel getting set up, starting channels, and even light channel management.

I think after that it gets complicated and hard with auto rebalancing, dual funded channels, amboss ranking etc...

Running your own lightning node is confusing.

Step by step... you will get there, if you have questions... just ask

Yeah, exactly why I never used Cashapp and preferred Strike until now. Will have to find another solution to get paid. Not many options out there unfortunately for this type of situation.

Just threw a new gif into my profile banner and it’s honestly stupid how much this simple thing delights me. 🤙

If I get a start9 or some node I think I will start.

I'm surprised by the number of bitcoiners that don't host their own email. Being a sovereign individual is such a big ideal among bitcoiners and yet so many choose to have their email services hosted by a third-party provider.

Email still today plays a huge role in our online identities and communication. Almost every service we sign up for requests an email address either for some type of verification purpose or communications. Having a third party host your email allows that provider to be privy to all your email information. What services you use, what you buy, where you shop, your acquaintances, and more is all information that can be gleaned from your email.

Hosting your email should be as important to bitcoiners as hosting your own bitcoin node.

What's the best android client right now? the most popular one like damus is on ios?

Finally BT is starting to promote people use their coin. This is a good trend.