191 sats \ 3 replies \ @tomlaies 13 Apr \ on: I closed all of my lightning channels and I'm shutting down my node. bitcoin
Posts like these go viral here every now and then. I would like to see some posts about people onboarding to Lightning to balance it out every now and then maybe.
People usually want to write about bad stuff maybe? I have the following solution - I have my lightning node and only open channels to services I use - WoS, Bitrefill, etc. In this case I
- don't care about "profits", routing, as it's for my personal use only.
- don't care about inbound liquidity. I use outbound all the time and when I run out of sats I buy bitcoin via lightning and move liquidity back to my side.
- force close happens once a year approx, I consider it a price you pay for a hobby, as I see my node as something I do for fun/ learning/ free time hobby kind of activity
I've never lost any sat , only paid fees for closing, opening.
Does it balance the original post a bit?)
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I have 1,000,000 sats right now. Unsettled for almost a year.
I'm glad that your experience is positive and that you are successful. I'm successful, too, but not with lightning. I think have two different self custody wallets / services is great! Most of my corn is on chain and I have lightning to play with. I'd rather pay developers who are doing a good job than to do a shitty job and be salty.
I've been "playing with computers" since 1984. I've used Unix since 1995. Linux since 1999. And I've built and repaired many systems. I'd rather be outside working on the water building things that people can park their boats on or near. Inside computers are for business and that includes a Bitcoin core node, electrum server but not Lightning. Nope. It's, too big and it's a full time job.
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I onboarded some friends and family to Primal and help them setup a wallet and did lightning transactions. They were blown away and Nostr was a nice surprise. Note that everyone I’ve setup with Primal have self custodial their bitcoin to cold storage and setting them up on Primal gave them a new found appreciation for being able to zap bitcoin to whoever they want from anywhere.
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