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Wonteet Zebugs · 1w
I've used lightning for lots of things but my experience has been that to work, it had to be used either from a custodial app (ecash mints) or a wallet that used liquid on the backend. I can't count t...
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Phoenix because it's reliable while self custodial.

In the last year or two I haven't even bothered to run my own LN node at home (or elsewhere). I used to, but I don't have the motivation or the organization to do it properly. Which is a shame, but shrug.

Also my case is not normal, I spent the last few years in El Salvador mostly.

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Wonteet Zebugs · 1w
My understanding of phoenix is that by using acinq's node, we lose a good part of the privacy that lightning would otherwise give us. Also, that if something happens to their node, the procedure to get our funds back is pretty complicated (for a non-dev). Would you say those are fair assessments?