<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>MetropleX [GrapheneOS] ⚡🟣 wrote</title><author_name>MetropleX [GrapheneOS] ⚡🟣 (npub1gd…7cn8c)</author_name><author_url>https://yabu.me/npub1gd3h5vg6zhcuy5a46crh32m4gjkx8xugu95wwgj2jqx55sfgxxpst7cn8c</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://yabu.me</provider_url><html>Just so everyone knows, you&#39;ve all played your part in helping me encourage adoption and implementation of lightning as a dedicated donation channel for the project.&#xA;&#xA;The following is an official project statement: &#xA;&#xA;&#34;We&#39;re in the process of determining the best way for us to host an always-on local Lightning node with a WireGuard tunnel from a cloud server. We also need to figure out hosting lnurl so that people can actually use it.&#xA;&#xA;It&#39;s likely we&#39;d get a lot more small Bitcoin donations if we added Lightning to avoid high fees and also for better privacy. We plan to do this, but it&#39;s quite difficult to do it properly without a custodial service or complex software that&#39;s likely not going to be reliable.&#xA;&#xA;Most people are experiencing Lightning via custodial services or non-custodial wallets using lnd + neutrino with a focus on sending rather than receiving payments. Receiving is harder than sending with Lightning and we need it to be secure, robust and reliable which is also hard.&#xA;&#xA;We need to have proper backups, etc. We could end up in a similar situation to the one we&#39;re having with PayPal if we set up Lightning poorly by using a custodial service or use software/hardware which ends up failing and doesn&#39;t have proper backups for the money in channels.&#xA;&#xA;We don&#39;t see much point in using Lightning unless we&#39;re running our own Lightning node on top of a Bitcode full node with local hardware and proper backups. We want to do it but it&#39;s not easy to do it the way we want. We aren&#39;t simply going to deploy someone&#39;s Docker images, etc.&#xA;&#xA;We run Bitcoin and Monero full nodes without pruning for use with our hardware wallet but we don&#39;t do it for other cryptocurrencies and it&#39;s not a serious deployment usable for anything public. Making a serious Lightning node is something entirely separate from what we have.&#34;&#xA;</html></oembed>