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..
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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Darth, do you have a guide on running your own LNaddress server that doesn’t involve LNBits?
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Apart from what @kristapsk said, did you looked into https://lightningaddress.com/ ? Lots of documentation there.
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Didn’t even know that site existed. Thank you
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When you are in doubt, just ask me. I have a BTC/LN encyclopedia 😂😂😂
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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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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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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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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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