Node nerds doing nerd things. nostr:note1q38vtsmyx4fh2f6fs74jsdwchs85zn9rdqt6u79vqz79th8s2jmqnylcja

We are building for freedom in Africa, yet bad actors are trying to ruin us. Our African nodes have been hacked. While our customers' funds were not affected, the losses we incurred are so severe we've had to temporarily close our African nodes. This is so sad, we are so sorry 😢

If any of you lost sats running a lightning node, dm me and I might be able to help you recover your sats, learned so much today!

Don't let those precious sats get away

I need to run a full node yesterday 😬

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self custodial lightning is a pain in the ass, custodial wallets work well. But this leads us down the road of trusted third parties again, i dont know if that is a great solution for freedom money?

If you would like to open a #lightning channel* to us, our node's tor address is as follows:

037f6c805dfef7a0f01cca0abcea96352a32aa478c63c974bc2e726cad8d026a89@yxzq6rlzxuhjm2fmi6hk43lem7dcbjpbju4zputqt4smtxenl4fig6id.onion:9735

*A minimum of 2 million sat capacity channel

#bitcoin

I apologize in advance because I'm gonna get real annoying asking stupid questions about running a node. 🤷‍♂️

I learn things buy repeatedly fucking up. Sometimes I don't learn at all, lol.

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Running lightning nodes is too complicated for 99% of people

To do non-custodial lightning on your phone it needs to be online when you receive the payment and requires an initial onchain tx to receive.

This is terrible ux, so you are forced to use custodial solutions like wallet of satoshi, and privacy is terrible.

fedimint is a third option: the mint can provide a lightning address for receiving and sending out zaps even when you’re offline. This is private, temporary custody.

When the phone comes online it can choose to sweep fedimint funds into its non-custodial phone wallet (a future non-custodial ⚡️ wallet in damus as an example). In the UI this would be simplified as your custodied and non-custodied balanced summed to your total balance.

Damus’ fedimint would be federated with other guardians such as mutiny, so I can’t unilaterally rug the custodied balance. This is implemented as a multisig bitcoin wallet behind the scenes.

The use case is killing non-private lightning custodians who can unilaterally rug you. nostr:note12yd075f9un56nlmmh6dk6ehxnatjg5kf35wcevx8rwa8kstzt5rqkv8n9m

Nodestriches be infiltrating!!