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#ffiat very much at this point.

This sounds like you tricked bunch of devs into a one way ticket to your basement and you need fresh blood.

That's right. I sell things using LN and I was fed up w/ Alby's %0.24 or something cut and constant nagging that I go over their limits. Worth the hassle if you're merchant perhaps, not so much as a user, perhaps, when you have convenient custodial services. It's just they need to package things in much more convenient ways. Lately Alby released their "Alby Hub", it looks a bit convenient but I'm not sure if it's recommending you channels and stuff. It has versions of hosted by Alby or self.

https://guides.getalby.com/user-guide/v/alby-account-and-browser-extension/alby-hub/getting-started

I use LND and it has backup option, including Static Channel Backups for your LN channels. You don't need to run a second server, just copy static channel backup somewhere whenever you open/close channel.

https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/docs/recovery.md

Oh yea Solana's not for decentralization enthusiasts for sure. What's though? ETH's better at it I believe, high fees. BTC lightning is hard to implement, requires centralized big routing nodes to operate optimally etc. Pick your poison. We don't have a perfect chain on all fronts. Scaling, decentralization, reasonable fees. Pick two I guess.

Have your heard of Solana TPS or Hedera?

Open a channel to reliable node. Who's worrying about channel states and why?

She means an hour tops.

Currently 3 networks are worth mentioning, BTC, if you want max privacy #Monero, if you want an easy for retail fast/cheap, hight TPS defi juggernaut, Solana. ETH TX cost is still too prohibitively expensive for a lot of things they're building on Solana.

I value that you're aware there's no coherent design language to naturally explain to user what the site is through it's design.

I saw that site but not sure I understand it.

Not quite, that's a narrative element to make points. On surface level it's criticism of 80s consumer culture, on deeper level it's an allegorical story that taps into the repressed psyche of men.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHW2aDBEClQ

Oh really? Let's first see if you understood the movie.

What's the movie REALLY about?

I know 2 nice analysis videos diving deep into the real meaning and undertones of the movie that so many people who think it's nonsense/bad usually miss. HMU after watching if you want to see those.

American Psycho for me.

This quickly turned into a bait and switch, haha.

- self custody LN's easy bro.

- oh yea.

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Hahaha it gets involved quick, yes. Just open a channel to Kraken if you're in USA and your use cases are USA based to skip the "which channel?" part if you wish. Wallet of Satoshi channel might be more interconnected w/ European nodes and use cases, I guess. While it's true that opening one single channel to a big player is causing centralization in the LN system and it's not ideal use, and ideally you'd want to open many channels to less centralized nodes to use it closer to the initial spirit and ethos of Lightning Network philosophy, in reality it can get more frustrating when you open a single channel to a low key node/player in the network and get frustrated when you find yourself you're unable to route payments ¯\(ツ)/¯

Lightning is very fascinating in idea that it's completely removing centralized ledger and making it more decentralized in some ways. Having to rely on big nodes/players is a hurdle at this point I can only hope we'll overcome via protocol improvements/upgrades in the future.