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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Doo_Deux OP 4 Jan freebie \ parent \ on: What is easiest way to start with Lightning as an end user? lightning

I'm familiar with custodial wallets and such. Been holding some cryptos since 2014. I just haven't messed around with Lightning yet, and not ready to go full blown hosting my own nodes/channels.

Any reason to go non-custodial?

45 sats \ 1 reply \ @dieselbaby 4 Jan

Honestly, despite what some people are telling you in here, brave gave you the best advice here. Go with Alby to start, IMHO (or WoS if you are on mobile). Non-custodial lightning is a pain in the ass. Fortunately, transactions are cheap and fast so you can quite literally keep a small amount in whatever wallet you wind up choosing, and either send it to an exchange to convert it to mainnet BTC or do whatever you want with it. Hell, even CashApp has lightning support built in, you can always use that as well if you wanted.

Again, this advice is considered heresy by a lot of people here, however, if you want the easiest way to get started and aren't looking to get into hosting your own node and setting up channels, it's really the only option that doesn't result in massive stress.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BountifulB 6 Jan

I tried to "learn Lightning over the weekend" and yeah, it was massive stress. Doable but many hours of study, experimenting and risk-taking required.

What is working for me is stacking sats in Liquid where I somewhat hold my own keys and then temporarily swapping out exact (or small) amounts to custodial Lightning wallet for payments.