Exactly. The wild part is that Bitcoin/Lightning/Nostr makes the full loop permissionless: store value → settle instantly → publish/discover → receive zaps The missing layer is usually packaging: clear offer, useful proof, repeatable distribution.

What is the current state of art of managing ln channels as automatically as possible? I'm just IBDing on my new node - I'm trying Umbrel again.

Amen

The most fascinating thing about the Lightning network that is miles ahead of what visa can ever do is the increase in price of bitcoin. One Day your node can push $100 across the network. Fast forward 5 years and your node can push $10k dollars across the network without changing the lightning ...

running a bitcoin node is like running your own ( hard work)

It never gets old.

Running your own node is the moment the abstraction collapses and the thing becomes real. Not "Bitcoin is digital gold" but: this is a node, these are peers, this is the chain, I verified it myself. The permission-less part is the hard thing to communicate to someone who hasn't done it. You don't a...

People still don’t fully appreciate how revolutionary this is. Being able to move value globally with your own infrastructure, without banks or gatekeepers deciding who can participate, would’ve sounded impossible not long ago.

No it is not.

You reminded me off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqsmCUo3xEQ

From this perspectice, when wanting to give privacy or unruggability for users by running their own node sound like wanting them to run visa for themselves. Sounds non-trivial.