525 sats \ 19 replies \ @DarthCoin 21 Mar 2023 \ on: 95% of zaps are from custodial wallets. We can do better bitcoin
So what?
If those custodial are NOT KYC, can be used really nice as a "decoy" wallet.
I personally use many LN addresses, public ones and private ones, custodial and non-custodial. All depending the use case.
I use public ones, custodial, for public stuff, where my real identity is not revealed. Almost all of these custodial do not require a full KYC so is not a big deal using them. You just have to move the funds out, to your own private wallets wherever you consider is a good amount.
I use private LN address for PRIVATE stuff (private businesses, private communication with people that really know me, family, friends etc), stuff that is NOT PUBLIC.
People should learn to make the difference between public and private damn it! Seems that many still don't know it.
Use a damn nym online. Even if you show your face in videos or interviews, at least use a damn nym, could be even a false full name, random one.
In regards of running your own LN address servers, here I wrote a quick guide
#147230
There's a reality also and that is the pursuit of a non-custodial solution, today, if you're not familiar with some skills, it'll be hard to level up but it's possible. And also, it's a reality that, as the times goes, it's easier to set up your own node. TBC, I'm not against the use of wallets such as WoS et al, but it keeps me very...concerned of how people just take it for granted those solutions.
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the zaps on nostr are insignificant in terms of total volume of LN use...
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Don’t try to frighten us with your custodial ways, lord Vader.
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You have long way to go until you will learn how to use this incredible power in your advantage...
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Use your anger, the custodial services give you power!!! My master taught me the ways of the Jedi, and the pleb side.
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You are wrong... Darth is The Balance in The Force.
You must keep the balance if you want to thrive, only when you have the balance between both forces (jedi and Sith) you are a Master.
The whole point of the force is to NOT take sides, but use all powers, in a balance and full knowledge.
You should read the Star Wars books and/or watch again all the saga and maybe you will understand more, what am I saying...
I am really surprised that people watch movies but don't pay attention to the details and just follow what MSM is pushing the idea...
As I said... you have long way to go until you learn these things.
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My lord forgive me but I have no issue with LN services, they have their purpose! I am trying to make joke. Follow MSM…. That hurts me.
What is best custody lighting wallet to give family?
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I know.
Smile, tomorrow will be worse !
😂😂😂
But you are a "Darth". Should be named Greycoin lol, like a grey Jedi. lol jk
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Exactly.
I have an Alby wallet on Nostr registered with a throwaway email and zero KYC.
I keep my “change” for zapping around in it and send larger sats in the LN network on my own local node.
And of course all of my on-chain bitcoin is on a hardware wallet.
Don’t see the issue, at least until we can onboard people more easily to non-custodial wallets with equivalent features out of the box (e.g. lightning address auto generated on a non-custodial lightning wallet).
Because if we are trying to onboard the normies here we won’t do it by telling them to all run lightning nodes let’s be real.
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I hope you know that Alby can also hook into your own node. That's how I use it :)
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I've read their pages on it, but I still can't work out if it connects just the extension to my node or my account to my node. Is it possible to do the latter so I can route zaps from my Alby address straight to my own node?
If yes, what happens to the sats in my Alby wallet? And can I still use it? It's the Alby wallet I used to sign up here so I don't necessarily wanna lose it now.
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I'm not sure how the account stuff works, I never used it. I just jumped straight to using my node. When doing it this way, you don't interact with their servers at all afaik
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Yeah I just use one of the web UIs to do that personally. Only reason I'd wanna hook the two up is for the LN address. But I like how I got things setup now tbh, it's good psychologically to have separate spending and hodling wallets even putting the OPSEC and privacy element aside.
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There's also another aspect that seems nobody talk about.
If I run a LN address server on my node machine, or even on a VPS, but pointing to my private LN node... then who would pay me to my darthcoin@mydomain.com would know even more about me:
- who register that domain, IP / location of the servers
- LN node ID, even if is private, IP/location
So why would I reveal that information with a tip / zap?
Yes, I could run a LN address server over Tor, but again, why would I want to complicate like that just for a damn zap/tip?
Running behind a custodial pseudonymous account is the best way to hide.
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Exactly right. That's another part of the reason I use Alby for Nostr, it's effectively an abstraction layer.
As you point out, you could run it through Tor (my node is only accessible by Tor anyway) and in fact you can even pay for domains and VPS's with bitcoin, but that's a whole lot of hassle if you all you want is a lightning address.
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