101 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 22 Sep 2023 \ parent \ on: What's your weakest definition of a self custodial lightning wallet? bitcoin
Indeed. A btcd or bitcoin core + LND with neutrino could minimize the setup, if you really want to keep all on you. Using Greenlight or trustedcoin from fiatjaf you will connect to a "trusted" validator, you are not in charge of that code base but you are still ok. You can change the validator any time you want, if that's the case. In my opinion is OK to use Greenlight or trustedcoin for such scenario you want to use.
Again, depends how far you want to go with the whole "sovereignty" of your node.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @andy OP 22 Sep 2023
What do you mean by "you are not in charge of that code base but you are still ok"?
I think it's okay to use those services if you want to for sure, I think the main point of this thread and my poll is whether you can call that a "self custodial" lightning wallet or not. I don't think you can, and I think it's misleading to do so. I think another name should be created for these "blind signing" nodes. If we don't challenge the wording, the service providers will still keep calling them "self custodial" and continue to mislead people.
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101 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 22 Sep 2023
yes there's a lot of confuse wording in all this, agreed.
code base = the core node blocks and stuff, version of the chain etc
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