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I've never used any "prepared" node setup. I run all my services in Docker containers with full control of the settings, security, connectivity, ...
It might look "too complex" at first, but IMO it's the best long term. I've been a Linux sysadmin for a long time, but now with AI I think that anyone could maintain it without much previous knowledge.
So maybe all you need is a Debian RPi or old laptop/PC and a bunch of Docker composes. Alby has a Docker image for example. Really everything does these days.
Do you want to write a bit more about it now? maybe a standalone SN post. For future references also :-)
Why were FBs a mistake? What problem are they trying to solve? What do they do well? What do they do badly? What are the alternatives? Which one is the better one?
I think your second criterium is already met. I've just zapped you from my LN node funded with self custody Bitcoin.
The fact that most people don't care or aren't willing to run one is not really a problem or at least not a problem any payments "solution" can fix.
I think email is a great invention (definitely not perfect, but that's not the point) because it allows people to self host their server. Not because everyone does. And that foxes many things in terms of incentives.
Maybe I'm seeing it as an emergency exit. If it exists and works, it's as good as it gets. It doesn't really need to be used by everyone at once for it to be a successful good door.
Thanks for the reference. I think you will like nothingmuch's fungi protocol. TLDR a multiparty coinjoin protocol without coordinator, where Sybil protection comes from a provenance term and users have their own cost function for choosing what inputs they mix with and how to arrange their outputs. Here are some links: https://fungi-protocol.github.io/docs/ and https://gist.github.com/nothingmuch/f5b9a559958c6116606d9da0d4d884f2
Anyway, that being said, I think the biggest issue FBs have is about privacy, since they end up being a static label attached to the maker. Be it size based or coin age based. So the renting market is a way to address this, independent on the kind of FB actually.
The good part of the size based ones is that the sacrifice is pretty clear/measurable. I personally wouldn't oppose to trying the coin age based ones as well. But then it's not that FBs are a mistake (that was what I understood when reading your comment). It would be more of FBs being a necessary but annoying thing and choosing over different tradeoffs.
The provenance alternative from nothingmuch is very promising. Let's see how it goes "in real life".
The repo is also in ngit and codeberg. I backup all issues and PRs so that "nothing" would ne lost if gh ever decides to try.
The real problem is finding people that want to discuss these things. So I go after them wherever they hang: SN, gh, Signal, tg, SimpleX, nostr, ...
Agreed.
I try to accept the world as it is and be optimistic about it (no pun intended xD).
Convenience is important to many. Also price stability.
I'm sure many of us here would be happy to be Uncle Jim service providers for friends and family. And a plebs lnbits node is not a juicy target, which would solve or mitigate this problem.
If we can't solve self custody, at least we could try and do better in decentralization.
Well, the problem is that someone hacked into coinos db. Not really a NWC specific thing! And I think there was a bug in the limit checking that excluded the tip and/or routing fees. Maybe a problem of centralization (becoming a honeypot) more than anything else.
I saw DLCs mentioned on #1554539 and realized that this link had not been posted to SN yet.
I wonder if this could be of any use for CoinJoins.