0 sats \ 2 replies \ @r3drun3 OP 19 Dec 2023 \ parent \ on: The Lightning Network is not sufficiently decentralized lightning
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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