Lightining nodes are the future of centralization ?
1 sat \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 1 Feb 2023
No
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @fanis 1 Feb 2023
You got plenty of good answers already, but it's also worth pointing out that even if you don't run your own LN Address server, you can still use someone else's to connect a Lightning Address directly to your own node.
See for example services such as https://lnsat.me/ (that's the first one that came to my mind, but there are plenty). You can pick a username, a domain (from the list) and connect the address to your own node.
The tradeoff here is that if the service goes down, your Lightning Address will become useless. But it's completely non-custodial, and any funds that were sent to the Lightning Address are safe on your own node.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Roll 1 Feb 2023
There is a good article about it
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/is-the-bitcoin-lightning-network-centralized
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @01xCc 1 Feb 2023
да
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0 sats \ 10 replies \ @nikotsla 1 Feb 2023
Could you elaborate a little more? what is your thinking about it? and what is the relation you map between the Lightning address and the Lighting nodes?
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0 sats \ 9 replies \ @Gian OP 1 Feb 2023
I would like to know if for you the convenience of having an LN address will make only a few large LN nodes stronger and stronger..
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21 sats \ 7 replies \ @DarthCoin 1 Feb 2023
You can run your own LN address server anytime. Nobody is forcing you to use a custodial service for a LN address or node.
I think you are confused what is a LN address and what is a LN node.
I wrote several guides on my substack about LN, nodes, bitcoin in general. Please consider reading them all.
https://darthcoin.substack.com/s/english/archive?sort=new
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Eximpius 1 Feb 2023
Darth, do you have a guide on running your own LNaddress server that doesn’t involve LNBits?
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31 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 1 Feb 2023
Apart from what @kristapsk said, did you looked into https://lightningaddress.com/ ? Lots of documentation there.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Eximpius 1 Feb 2023
Didn’t even know that site existed. Thank you
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 1 Feb 2023
When you are in doubt, just ask me. I have a BTC/LN encyclopedia 😂😂😂
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @kristapsk 1 Feb 2023
SatSale self-hosted payment processor supports LN addresses for LND backend. Not yet with CLN and LndHub (Blue Wallet) backends. https://github.com/SatSale/SatSale
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Gian OP 1 Feb 2023
Thanks a lot for the guides! my thoughts only focus on considering that the desire to have a ln address that uniquely identifies us will lead many noobs users to use custodial services...
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 1 Feb 2023
It's a natural learning curve.
Let them discover slowly all the aspects.
It's ok for noobs to get into these custodial services, it's easier for them to onboard. If you push them into hardcore stuff, you get them lost.
In the last 10 years in Bitcoinlandia I was onboarding hundreds of total noobs. Is really hard for them to understand this fascinating world. But if you take them slowly will get it in the end.
And that's why I wrote all those guide, for them to discover more things about BTC and LN.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nikotsla 1 Feb 2023
No.
You can spin a node pretty easy right now and I think in the future there will be even better, maybe even it will be transparent to the final user. It's a P2P network so it will be easy to fight this kind of accumulation, almost always the game of incentive will be in charge.
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