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1 sat \ 9 replies \ @btcgandalf 5 Feb 2022 freebie \ on: Someone should create non-custodial API service bitcoin
Tallycoin allows you to do fundraising and have lightning payments go straight to your own node.
Would they be able to turn that into a non-custodial Strike style API?
It would, kind of, but not really. I'd need to expose my IP which I don't want to.
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Running Tallycoin Connect on an Umbrel device is exactly what you want.
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It's not, unfortunately! I don't want to expose my node to the clearnet (which is a must if I want to interact with the web in anyway).
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Umbrel runs all apps through TOR by default, if that is what you are concerned about
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I know that it does, that's not the issue. The issue is that the API needs to be reachable from clearnet which ends up exposing my node. Not ideal.
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I don't know that much about the risk involved there. Can you explain what happens when your node gets exposed? Then people can track all activity to and from the node? I thought Lightning was more privacy preserving than that.
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The information that is leaked by exposing Tallycoin to clearnet is your rough location in the world as well as making it easier for attackers to target your node.
It's not an impossible problem to get around. You can proxy the requests via a back-end service for example. But it'd be nice to not have to worry about it :)