So much of the world runs on people NOT flipping a switch I bet

Does anyone know why it’s “bad” for a bitcoin miner to also be a lightning routing node? ie. Are there possible exploits a miner is able to do to its peers/channel partners that are not possible for regular routing nodes? I feel like I’ve heard “don’t just a miner that’s also a routing node” but don’t quite remember why, will sling some sats around to whoever has a solid answer

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Voltage customers can now install Surge on their node, we will be releasing an update for all Lightning Network users in the future.

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Finally figure out a non-custodial zap setup:

1) voltage node running lnbits

2) vida account associated to custom nip-05 id

3) connect vida account to an lnbits wallet via their integration page

4) paste the @vida.live into your nostr account for the lnurl address

5) zap away

I’m sure someone better at lnbits & it’s extensions knows how to skip Vida altogether, but this at least worked for me. The node and lnbits could also be self-hosted of course. This is very much a “good enough” solution to me.