On pace for a big Pub dashboard drop this week
Only the coins encumbered by it, they basically become bcash tokens
Vaulting and spending a compromised shitcoin is already possible on any other chain
All these shitfork proposals enable externalized consensus to pervert the incentive structure
They're funded and astroturfed by the same cabal that uses shitcoins to muddle the industry.
Nostriga was like a hackathon gone wrong.
We must save Nostr from the Nostr developers.
In that case I would recommend reading and watching anything written or presented by Alex Bosworth over the last 5 years
Good starting point, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlPIB6jt6ww
Open just a couple channels for your own/family use to save yourself chain fees, don't expect to earn routing fees and go overboard. Routing isn't for casuals.
Just pushed a fix to get ARM installs working
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If you're the node operator then its self-custodial, with the option to add custodial guests. The goal is to let people who prefer a custodial solution keep that as close as possible. Most people share a house/fridge/car with people already, and they'll share a node / channel too.
There's no benefit in Cashu as it's the same scenario with either... if you run your own mint then its self custody, else it's custodial.
ECash is worse UX because there's fragile gateway and settlement layer between it and real Lightning payments, and on the client side you're reintroducing bearer shitcoins thus making the worst combination of trade-offs: a custodial solution that still requires key management.
It's not that Pub is more private, it's just not less, the overall point is that you shouldn't use either for privacy as both are limited by the nodes anonset. Since a node operator has countless ways to deanonymize activity, you simply shouldn't use a custodian you don't trust and ECash doesn't make a custodian you don't trust anymore trustworthy. ECash's privacy benefits would only come at bank or government level scale which is even more dangerous because of how much oversight those mints would have into the flows of the Lightning network... this is why it's so important we make custodians small... ECash is for governments not families.
I should caveat that we have NOT automated watchtower setup yet, so something to consider if you'll be offline regularly
Most of the benefits come from it being always-on 24x7 but it won't hurt if it goes down from time to time
It'll run on Windows/Mac too but would be a manual installation
I personally recommend an old laptop with clean *buntu install, the built-in battery makes it much less likely the node gets corrupted. Since it uses neutrino a 4GB of RAM clunker with ~20GB of free disk should be adequate (would suggest an SSD at least though)
Cashu/ECash is a bad design choice for this usecase imo, it makes tradeoffs incompatible with fluid mass-adoptable UX because its just layering the management of a new shitcoin as opposed to direct RPC access
Save for enterprise-scale environments, Pub isn't any less private either as it uses ephemeral keys that are blind children not tied to a given identity. A user could have one or many, rotate them, etc. Also with friends/family nodes nodes the anonymity set is so low that becomes the common limiting factor... whitelisting keys would also negate any privacy benefits
If however you are already running a mint, it could conceivably serve as a backend for Pub... while we built on a single implementation to focus on security (LND) we did so in a way that adapters should be relatively simply to implement
I heard nostr likes bush pics 
Yea we built Lightning.Pub around LND but in a way it shouldn't be too difficult to create adapters for other backends
Connects to a remote node over Nostr, can optionally start custodial and upgrade when you have enough sats or set one up from scratch in 2 minutes
Still alpha, but ShockWallet is already the best Lightning wallet as a daily driver by far imo
Super fast and reliable, its not a mobile node so no waiting to boot or graph syncs that cause failures
Using Nostr real-time sync is a handy flex too, one wallet on desktop phone 🤌 https://video.nostr.build/fd3ab3cd55bed1337cf1361e14cc8dd18de279a8a2724b6a9a15244ae222d5ad.mp4
Kdenlive for video but it deserves the KDE desktop (Kubuntu)
Kinds > NIPS