Lightning.Pub is already a nostr powered Lightning node, and signals to relays with a beacon for wallets to connect. LSP services in that beacon is a goal of ours, but a longer range objective, since there's far more considerations than just advertising and an API.
Setting up a node to use nostr for comms is easy, less than a minute as we've shown, but being a good LSP is another matter entirely... just being reachable over IP4 negates a p2p-like marketplace.
Potential clients also need to know an LSP is reliable, so that implies network level insights about up-time and liquidity.
It'd be pointless to offer this for wallets specifically, since wallets are generally sales interfaces. Wallets choose LSP's not for lack of a decentralized market, but because the wallet is how they sell their LSP service. Zeus sells Olympus, Phoenix sells Acinq... and so on. LSP's are how wallets monetize.
Mobile nodes are also a retarded idea, I've articulated that many times before here.
Liquidity ads is a similar concept to yours, done over Lightning gossip, which is dumb since gossip isn't meant for that. Nostr is the appropriate forum for it and vast improvement, but Liquidity ads has no traction for many of the reasons I'm listing here.
Amboss Magma is a centralized market, it solves some of the reputation issues with all its insights as a result, but still savvy users are going to dig down into their network insights and self-peer rather than buy blindly.
Lightning Labs Pool is similar, blindly accepting an offer from anyone who was able to list isn't a recipe for success.
Lower the barrier to becoming an LSP
Lowering the barrier ultimately will just flood the market with bad LSPs, the high barrier acts as a filter of quality... the Lightning.Pub vision is less about a marketplace of arbitrary peers, but rather using your existing Nostr social graph. The best LSP is the node of someone you'd still deal with otherwise, that keeps your routes shorter and Web of Trust adds a filter beyond network insights.
Lightning.Pub is already a nostr powered Lightning node, and signals to relays with a beacon for wallets to connect. LSP services in that beacon is a goal of ours, but a longer range objective, since there's far more considerations than just advertising and an API.
Setting up a node to use nostr for comms is easy, less than a minute as we've shown, but being a good LSP is another matter entirely... just being reachable over IP4 negates a p2p-like marketplace.
Potential clients also need to know an LSP is reliable, so that implies network level insights about up-time and liquidity.
It'd be pointless to offer this for wallets specifically, since wallets are generally sales interfaces. Wallets choose LSP's not for lack of a decentralized market, but because the wallet is how they sell their LSP service. Zeus sells Olympus, Phoenix sells Acinq... and so on. LSP's are how wallets monetize.
Mobile nodes are also a retarded idea, I've articulated that many times before here.
Liquidity ads is a similar concept to yours, done over Lightning gossip, which is dumb since gossip isn't meant for that. Nostr is the appropriate forum for it and vast improvement, but Liquidity ads has no traction for many of the reasons I'm listing here.
Amboss Magma is a centralized market, it solves some of the reputation issues with all its insights as a result, but still savvy users are going to dig down into their network insights and self-peer rather than buy blindly.
Lightning Labs Pool is similar, blindly accepting an offer from anyone who was able to list isn't a recipe for success.
Lowering the barrier ultimately will just flood the market with bad LSPs, the high barrier acts as a filter of quality... the Lightning.Pub vision is less about a marketplace of arbitrary peers, but rather using your existing Nostr social graph. The best LSP is the node of someone you'd still deal with otherwise, that keeps your routes shorter and Web of Trust adds a filter beyond network insights.