1 sat \ 3 replies \ @spraveenitpro 17 Feb 2023 \ on: Can we take a moment to appreciate how far lightning has come bitcoin
Does your mobile wallet talk directly to the full node or you just fund it from the node?
I know what it would take to maintain connectivity to the node from my phone outside my home network, and it seems like a fragile arrangement.
I don't really want to depend on my ISP or tor or whatever VPN port forwarding solution would be necessary just to have "walking around" sats spent directly from the node.
It's much easier to use a custodial or neutrino-based self-custodial solution. So I simply keysend some sats from the home node to the mobile wallet, and I don't have to worry about all the moving pieces I would have to maintain to have a wallet that "phones home".
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FYI Zeus + Tailscale or Zerotier makes this painless, albeit with a trust tradeoff.
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It's not just the ease part of it, I should say. It's that my lightning transactions would now depend on the service continuity of a node at home, my ISP, and a VPN service. That's a pretty fragile arrangement, especially in an extended travel scenario. Neutrino lightning wallets are a much more resiliant non-custodial solution for mobile.
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