I’d also recommend trying nunchuk over blue wallet (iOS & Android). It uses standard descriptor wallets which make it a great multisig watch only setup imho

I use Zeus for LN

I think it’s fine to take advantage of taproot privacy on a go forward basis to avoid the fee impact of closing channels all at once

You can designate a percentage of a direct deposit to be converted to bitcoin without fees. Then you can transfer >100,000 sats with out fees on chain.

Block’s actual profit on that 2.6B is ~44M

I built a small python app that I can run alongside my node and accept lightning address payments. It’s nothing new but gave me a chance to play with my node’s LND gRPC api. Note you still need to host a well-known text file somewhere 😃

I use tails to access my cold storage wallet. Great OS!

I think your problem is that 9735 is the p2p protocol port. It’s not a webservice like the grpc rest endpoint (don’t remember that port). I’ve only placed my proxy openresty in front of the grpc rest service.