Paying with my own LND node has become quite reliable. In 2024 I didn't have any payment failures anymore with amounts up to 300k.
In the field I had one payment delay with Phoenix on a Bitcoin event. I guess the channels got unbalanced when suddenly a lot of payments happened to one particular node.
I guess that with a higher Bitcoin price a lot of older channels are now big enough to handle these medium sized payments.
I haven't been able to make a lightning payment above 1.6M sats. Also, merchants in the Arizona area still haven't accepted Bitcoin Lightning yet.
I still use it and don't have issues, but overall being realistic it is about a 6/10. The tech is a 10/10, but the adoption and some of the nuances make it much less.
Excellent. With Zeus again today and Fedimint recently.
Incredible to have a Lightning node in our own mobile, just connect like this and pay to anyone on earth given his has an Internet connection.