100 sats \ 3 replies \ @benthecarman 9 Jun 2023 \ on: I wish someone had warned me about using self-custodial lightning wallet bitcoin
These are all good points. We're trying to make these all explicit in mutiny so it's apparent to the user and they can make informed decisions
That will take away a lot of anxiety when it comes to these types of wallets. I don't really keep any funds in a lightning wallet unless I really need to because I have no idea how to self manage lightning in a way where I don't lose all my funds.
Lightning really seems to be focused around the idea that if you run a node you'll be trying to keep that node online as much as possible. This leads to a lot of bad UX.
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you only need a always online node if you're running a routing node, otherwise it just needs to be online when you use it
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That is good to know! Most guides for setting up lighting is under the assumption you are doing it to route. I love that Mutiny is thinking about all this from the actual end users perspective. I want explore lightning but have no interest in routing myself at least not at first. I have used it for payments here and there.
I wonder what are some other advantages of running a LN node if you're not routing? I think you can also do lnurl auth from a node which does not even require having sats. I am sure people will continue to discover all kinds of fun ways to use Lightning.
Exciting times ahead!
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