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293 sats \ 1 reply \ @justin_shocknet 11 Oct \ parent \ on: DISCUSS: saying "hold your own keys" is similar to "run your own email server" bitcoin
Yea it's a bad analogy for L1, email servers are synchronous, requiring some hefty configuration to route messages. Bitcoin is asynchronous and the network relays instead of routes. Apples and oranges.
The analogy of an email server in the context of Lightning is more appropriate, and I use that a lot myself since Lightning is synchronous, there are considerations for routing via the network.
Even a Lightning node though is orders of magnitude simpler than an email server, that's not to say we should expect everyone to run one, but we should expect and strive for Lightning to be orders of magnitude more decentralized and less permissioned than email.
I agree. He was unfortunate in his choice of words when he talked about adoption, because when I introduce someone to bitcoin the first interaction is through custodial LN. In that case running an email server is a good analogy for running your own Lightning channel.
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