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But that is the totally wrong assumption that many people have, that is necessarily that every user must know how to run a LN node ! TOTALLY WRONG. As I said many times and also in many of my guides, there are PUBLIC and PRIVATE nodes. Each one have a different approach and management. Not everybody must be a public LN routing node. You can easily use a simple node with 1-2 private channels and done. Nothing burger. https://darth-coin.github.io/nodes/private-ln-nodes-en.html

I use Phoenix and Zeus for self custodial lightning. No matter how many docs you write to make yourself feel important, this still still terrible UX first of all, and doesn't scale to more than a few million people at most. You can't just look at what works now if you want more and more people to use Bitcoin via lightning

Also, Justin has his own company that's building its own chstodial system using nostr, that's the only reason he shits on Ark, Spark, Cashu and everything else. You shit on everything else *except* cashu because Zeus integrated it That's very dishonest

I literally make a lightning node distribution, made for people to run, and decentralize the network. I do not provide any centralized custodial service, Pubs use any other Pub to bootstrap peer. Even the built-in LSP automation uses an array of different LSP's, zeus-olympus, voltage, megalithic, flash sats. I don't run one. YOUR NODE shops rates and peers when running a Lightning.Pub I've made all this a 1 line install and Start9 bundle. I shit on Ark Spark and Cashu because they are shit, their entire premise is at-scale centralization, handwaving that neobanker dogshit as open source doesn't make it any less shit. You know nothing.