the significance of being able to do this

Back in 2020 when I started running my nodes it blew my mind what I was doing. For years I have worked with payment processing on the dev side. I dont think people understand how incredible bitcoin is.

Before I ran a lightning node I was a bitcoiner but it unlocked a much deeper understanding and conviction.

Honestly, it's not about lightning. Lightning isn't perfect. But even so it isn't that hard for a skilled person to do and that blew my mind. Still running the same node 5 years later. The knowledge and consequences of that knowledge are well worth the cost of running the node in time and money to me.

I frankly dont care if morons don't want to understand that.