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I've talked a lot about Mobile Nodes and ECash being terrible ideas- and regret that it was perceived
nodes non-sustainable. ... convenience product, it's just a bad business without charging high fees... and it's the high fees make mobile
I don't recommend any mobile nodes, but at least Zeus, Blixt, and Phoenix make an honest effort.
Keep in mind that splicing benefits LSPs, particularly those shilling Mobile nodes, who often need to ... repurpose liquidity because mobile channels are a waste of capital. ... Individual nodes have the alternative and classic route of simply opening a redundant channel, which
The only purpose to removing the justice tx is for fake nodes on mobile devices, which are unreliable ... Mobile nodes are upstream of all the fud, trust, and stupidity that goes on in lightning, and the provenance ... Most nodes aren't, nor should they be, routers.
As a permission-less network people don't need permission to do stupid things Running mobile nodes for ... and failure probability at the network layer Too many channels, even people that run highly available nodes
Cost is another yet factor no one wants to mention with these unsustainable mobile nodes. ... In most cases these mobile nodes are still distributed in a completely trusted way, and can be rugged ... Such concerns can only be mitigated on mobile if the mobile has limited scope access to the node.
Mobile nodes ignore this at great peril. ... Tunneling wallets on the other hand have been around longer than mobile nodes, and they both work and ... that trying to shoehorn a node onto a phone is a heck of a lot more difficult than just having real nodes ... The title of this is a bit misleading, it implies that there's only one way to be non-custodial on mobile ... There's scalability issues here too, and we already see some mobile node wallets bail out to centralizing
I've dunked on mobile nodes and their toy use-cases for a long time, and now the capitulation to that
LSP's will find it increasingly difficult to sell channels to hobbled devices like mobile nodes when ... are just a few reasons the mission for shockwallet and lightning.pub is so important, making remote nodes
Less mobile nodes on compromised hardware and less fake L2 wallet herding sheep is good for Bitcoin.
This is why mobile nodes are a dead-end, they're too costly to maintain for the low volume and online-ness ... of a mobile device.
nodes. ... Bitcoin/Lightning node management itself, that's easily automated as illustrated by bad patterns like mobile ... There's nothing I want to see more than millions of family lightning nodes (not on a damn phone!)
nodes. ... on Lightning today are largely downstream of the high-time-preference stupidity and wastefulness of mobile ... how much more efficient Lightning will get when bozo's aren't buying unstable channels tied to one mobile
nodes. ... overhead (actually earn revenue) unlike other express options that have typically taken the form of mobile
just to play around with small amounts in the zapping ecosystem infrequently then custodial/trustodial mobile ... various apps, and learn, then you'll want to take ownership and run a proper always-online setup (not a mobile
Even one of the more infamous perpetrators of the mobile node hoax is getting miffled: https://x.com
only BOLTS are Lightning... also Bxlt12 is not Lightning (yet) despite the best efforts of cloud and mobile
transactional requests, it's only hosting a copy of the files for your phone to download since Mutiny is a mobile
The same is true of running a mobile node, Apple/Google ultimately pwn your keys. ... But when running on anyone else's hardware (no matter the configuration, including some nodes as a service ... Obviously I wouldn't recommend a cloud or mobile node for cold storage or any life altering amount of ... Satoshi, just as I wouldn't use a VPS or hosting provider that explicitly catered to hosting Bitcoin nodes
It can work but only with lightning.pub or LNC to a stationary node, mobile nodes will be extinct soon