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1353 sats \ 2 replies \ @hampus 9 Dec 2022 \ parent \ on: Someone brave enough to ask tough questions bitcoin
Being a routing node or not does not matter whatsoever and it makes no sense for a mobile node to also route payments.
With some wallets like Blixt, Breez and OBW, you do not rely on centralized lightning service providers. You can open a channel to whatever node you want to.
In practice you would want to find a good and well connected node, which there are plenty of. But you don't have to. You can connect to some obscure one to stay low profile.
You cannot open a channel to whatever node you want to and expect your wallet to work reliably when your node is offline most of the time or for a longer period of time.
But the longer I think about it, the more it seems like a matter of charging some extra fees for mobile peers and not so much about regulation for lightning service providers.
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You cannot open a channel to whatever node you want to and expect your wallet to work reliably when your node is offline most of the time or for a longer period of time.
So then you will have to choose whether you want reliability or not.
My point was that you have the option. You cannot have it all.
But the longer I think about it, the more it seems like a matter of charging some extra fees for mobile peers and not so much about regulation for lightning service providers.
I think regulation for wallet developers and LSPs is a real concern. But it cannot destroy Lightning, because you can always to connect permissionlessly to other peers.
It might make Lightning suck though.
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