5 sats \ 0 replies \ @falcoonbr 12 Jul 2023 \ on: I am not a routing node anymore bitcoin
I'm about to discontinue the routing here as well. I also run a node for about 2 years and also ran in negative balance. Here's some topics I find relevant:
- People clever and or richer than me will make it happen profitably
- TOR connectivity is laggy and some time non responsive
- risk of being hacked
- risk of dying while a lot of bitcoins alocated within LN and no relative would be able to retrieve it (close channels and withdraw to sell is too complicated to do even with a tutorial)
- You can use a mobile wallet and a private channel with some big nodes or specific channels while keeping your private keys without the need of a computer and you can send LN free
- node restoration is a mess and pricy
I JUST DON'T KNOW why the community still pushes for ppl to host their own node!!