Thanks, good call

Yakihonne takes an NWC string. Definitely there is no cut going to Apple.

Awesome guide, thanks for this! We also have a new guide which focuses on starting your first Lightning Node and getting an NWC code to send & receive zaps: https://rizful.com/get_zaps_with_your_own_lightning_node

... As well as another which focuses on getting fully set-up on Nostr... https://rizful.com/get_on_nostr_today

There is also something that is not shown in this table, which is -- how reliable are payments using these LSPs? That's something that's also pretty difficult to measure.. you'd have to set up a channel with all of these, then make 20+ payments too and from various wallets... and also, it's a moving target, because they might all work one minute, and then five minutes later, all fail.

Maybe needless to say, our #1 priority with Megalith LSP and Rizful LSP is to be sure that payments don't fail.

Nice table. BTW Rizful and Megalith LSP use the exact same code to determine opening fees. It's dependent on the prevailing chain fees. So you saw 19,878 and 20,282, which makes sense, probably there was a few minutes delay between these two prices, that shows the difference.... but if you got the prices from Rizful and Megalith LSP at the exact same moment, they should be the same...;)

Also. Wanted to note. Megalith LSP and Rizful both guarantee a 3 month duration, unless the user goes offline for more than 30 days..... but also, possibly different from other LSPs, that duration is EXTENDED INDEFINITELY if you actually USE the channel -- i.e. you send sats or someone else sends sats. If your node stays online (which it will perfectly if you use a cloud service like Rizful or Alby Hub), and if you send or receive sats at least once or twice per month, you should see that your channel NEVER closes.

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Yes, thanks, regarding "Also please add a notification (by email or nostr) for those nodes that will go "dormant" or offline so users will be alerted." -- this is already done. You should get an email when and if your node sleeps.

Gracias

Thanks. Yeah. We are SUPER eager to deploy Testnet4 on Rizful. Should be early in 2025. See our description of how we think it can be used in education here: https://rizful.com/#the-case-for-educational-lightning-software

Yeah. Basically, a big design focus for Rizful is that the nodes are DISPOSABLE. You can quickly delete a node, and also quickly delete you Rizful account, whenever you wan.t (We do have safety checks however to make sure you don't delete a node with funds or channels... see here: https://rizful.com/docs/deleting-node

We're huge and early supporters of Alby Hub actually.

We're set up NOSTR! public key: npub1jluy3twvf338v6zlujzzdhjkzjy8ezj34ksydr8vw8a6jwp89ygshpp2kq

So a "chain analysis honeypot" would be like, we were tracking UTXOs some how, right? I am pretty vague on how this would work. Also, how could any individual or service prove that they were NOT doing this?

thanks!

Yes, you can use "Get Inbound", and then send a payment to your Rizful node, and that payment will show up as your "outbound capacity" -- see here: https://rizful.com/docs/balances-and-capacities#outbound-capacity

Rizful was created by the same team behind https://megalithic.me/ ... but to answer your question more directly -- if you are fully paranoid, running your own Lightning Node on your own hardware is always the best solution: https://docs.megalithic.me/category/should-i-run-a-lightning-node

I recommend you try a NWC back end that is a fully featured Lightning Node. Rizful & Alby Hub will both work.

Correct.