110 sats \ 2 replies \ @rijndael 20 Jul 2022 \ on: I'm John Cantrell, entrepreneur, spiral grantee, and creator of Sensei. AMA bitcoin
There is a growing space of turnkey lightning nodes (on the hobbiest end, you have things like umbrel or raspiblitz; on the SMB and eventually enterprise end, you have managed node providers like voltage or opennode). Where do you see Senei fitting in the market? My 2 sats is that Sensei is going to be something like: "a turnkey lightning node that is highly customizable so can end up in places that more monolithic offerings can't fit, like being embedded in applications" Is that how you see Sensei, or is there something different that you're aiming to achieve?
Thanks!
I think maybe the most 'obvious' fit for Sensei could be as a completely open-sourced greenlight alternative (though I think they have plans to eventually open-source the backend).
Another interesting use-case for Sensei might be for businesses who conceptually like the idea of LDK and have plans down-the-road to require a more customized lightning experience but don't have the resources to start down that path today.
They can start with Sensei (a LDK based node) and easily migrate their entire infrastructure to their future custom ldk based node without having to 'start over'. They can migrate their existing channels and funds without real downtime.
I think it's early days for Sensei and I'm confident it will find its niche as its feature set gets more developed. Stay tuned :)
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Makes a TON of sense. Thanks for the reply!
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