Phones still have networking and power issues, but yea liveness is the biggest issue with running a revenue generating node on phones. It was a foolish design decision to not use a web-based communication spec in Lightning, then even more foolish for some of those same salaried devs to push the mobile node fantasy.
somebody comes up with a truly plug-n-play lightning node that automates a lot of channel management?
Already been done. Channel management is a solved problem.
it is actually convenient
Define convenient, you can set up a Pub in less than a minute and basically forget about it.
will always require a higher level of user interactivity
Network interactivity is not the same as user interactivity, the nodes themselves are interactive with each other and the chain... that is unsolveable because that's the coordination piece... the chain is asynchronous meaning it is non-interactive, coordinating above the chain is inherently interactive and therefore synchronous
It's already easier to set up a Lightning.Pub than it is to set up a WiFi router.
Phones still have networking and power issues, but yea liveness is the biggest issue with running a revenue generating node on phones. It was a foolish design decision to not use a web-based communication spec in Lightning, then even more foolish for some of those same salaried devs to push the mobile node fantasy.
Already been done. Channel management is a solved problem.
Define convenient, you can set up a Pub in less than a minute and basically forget about it.
Network interactivity is not the same as user interactivity, the nodes themselves are interactive with each other and the chain... that is unsolveable because that's the coordination piece... the chain is asynchronous meaning it is non-interactive, coordinating above the chain is inherently interactive and therefore synchronous
It's already easier to set up a Lightning.Pub than it is to set up a WiFi router.