Because everytime I unwrap something I poop my pants

Nah rust is poopy pants

Private node?

You opened multiple channels in unannounced mode? Why are you balancing them then? They're private, they don't route. Private channels work better when they're not balanced. Surly you've read the manual and know that?

Only public channels need to be balanced. They work better when they are balanced because it provides paid routing opportunities to route other people's payments.

Private channels never route payments so being balanced doesn't do anything for you apart from waisting fees balancing the channels. There's no point balancing private channels.

RTFM

> 1. I'm describing end user nodes. Every node has to manage liquidity and routes

No it doesn't. Fuck off with your bullshit. At least go an RTFM before making such stupid statements.

Or, you're not ignorant and you're intentionally lying to push a shitcoin.

Let me guess, if I do a quick look into your history, is there a lot of shitcoin promoting there?

Soooo...what's the bet? Is he an ignorant fool or shitcoin scammer?

But, you just described a public routing node which is not, I repeat, NOT for regular users. First off, and this is really important, it's PUBLIC. When has anything designed for public use, ever been suitable for private use?

A public routing node provides routing services for the lightning network for fun and profit. It has to ADVERTISE itself to the world to attract other nodes to connect to, and use it's services.

A public routing node requires a good working knowledge of Linux CLI and the knowledge and ability to secure an Internet facing server. It's advertising itself to the world. It's going to be attacked. Add to that a static IP, decent bandwidth, and a fairly grunty machine if it gets busy.

And, liquidity. If you haven't got a decent chunk of Bitcoin to provide a significant number of channels with enough liquidity to be useful to the network, you're waisting your time, money, electricity, hardware and effort.

This is not the setup a regular person needs for a lightning wallet.

End uses use a private, non-routing non-custodial wallet that doesn't need to be online 24/7, doesn't need channels balanced, because it doesn't route other people's payments. It uses unannounced private channels so neither the wallet, the node, or the channels will show on any lightning network maps, or be traceable in any way. There's litterly no way to ever know if a private wallet exists.

A private non-routing non-custodial lightning wallet, is private. No channels it uses can be seen by anyone. No payments made, or received can be traced by anyone.

This setup can run on a cheap mobile phone. And there's plenty of options for private, non-routing, non-custodial lightning wallets for mobile phones.

Phoenix wallet has to be the easiest non-custodial, non-routing wallet to use. I have used Phoenix, now I use Zeus on mobile.

Do you have many channels?

The Olympics is a joke.

Where does one get certified?

While I agree those are all issues, there is no technology without tradeoffs. I personally don't think that those make lightning unusable or even especially difficult, and they are problems which exist with lots of internet technologies.

It will continue to get better and different layers with different tradeoffs will start to be more popular. 5 years ago, there barely was a lightning network. Now, it likely accounts for the majority of Bitcoin transactions (not by volume obviously but by quantity).

For better or worse, probably over half the world is waiting until their bank offers a Bitcoin checking account before they decide to try using it. And that isn't because of a small blocksize or high fees, blocks are basically empty right now. So let's not break a good thing.

Peak UX

nah. You're just pushing the limits on generally available liquidity along routes. Much higher success rates at under 1M.

I just changed my baby's nappy and garments without him waking up. I feel like a ninja 🥷

And what were the issues with using those?

The vast majority of the world don’t operate their own website either. The goal is to make it easy to switch custodians.

As someone who actually tests different wallets regularly and gives user feedback, I can confidently say that there are no silver bullets yet, and self-custodial Lightning is a chore to set up for most people. The masses aren’t coming to learn about liquidity and channel balancing and HTLCs. You have to want to use it because you care about the MOE case for bitcoin. In Western countries, it’s not really needed yet, but in some parts of the world, it’s a matter of survival.

I don't believe one second you actually care about normie UX, you just hate Lightning. That's fine, Lightning has no feelings towards you.

People like this don't want to hear your solutions to their problem, they just want to shout angrily into the sky.

And you still are bitching about it?.

A routing node is not the only option, you can run a private node and have a much better experience