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Wow they paid money to get scammed, that is next level

Yeah I did a lot of lightning research a few years back and even had a node running with RTL etc. I stopped short of opening channels since I knew I would not have the time free to do channel management. Also rebalancing was non-trivial.

F2F volume is mostly through trusted peers. Anonymous F2F over Bisq is not the norm.

I even suggested to a F2F Counterparty to use Bisq and they refused since the on-chain footprint is obvious, which is a fair critique.

But please say a prayer for the Monero only Maxis. They are still surviving on Cup Noodles.

PhoenixD is easy to use and self-custodial. Needs a server to host it. Can be expensive (0.4% default fees) but good channel liquidity.

https://github.com/ACINQ/phoenixd

They have Bolt12 and BIP353 DNS addresses. You might not find full compatibility for Bolt12 on Nostr yet, though.