15 sats \ 3 replies \ @anon 19 Dec 2023 \ parent \ on: The Lightning Network is not sufficiently decentralized lightning
More than 30% of all LN nodes on the mainnet running on 5 cloud providers
How do you know that? Just by reading a chart showing a bunch of IPs? Do you know how IPs works? From your answer seems that you don't. If I buy an IP for my home server from amazon cloud, does that mean my server runs on amazon cloud? Is is it literally hosted on amazon cloud? The answer is simple: NO.
So please DYOR before posting crap.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @r3drun3 OP 19 Dec 2023
Private citizens dont usually buy IP on aws or gcp or azure :) If your node has an "aws IP" which is really a dns name, is it becaus your node instances is running as a service within aws and have a public elastic IP associated to it.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @endothermicdev 19 Dec 2023
nah, a wireguard vpn setup is more common than you think. I know several node operators who prefer this setup for speed + reliability + privacy. https://github.com/wtogami/vpn-nat-service-forwarding-howto
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @aljaz 19 Dec 2023
thats not entirely true, utilizing aws free tier to get a clearnet ip and then vpn that to your home node is a use case that i've seen at least few noderunners utilizing
of course this is node disproving your original thesis that a lot of capacity is running on major cloud providers but that is a different (non)issue
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