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- if you run a node on a desktop or a server, you'd normally have the watchtower built in
- if you have a mobile node that only turns on temporarily, then you might want to run a separate watchtower; but if your setup includes both a desktop and a mobile then you probably want to run a normal node on the desktop and Zeus on the mobile
- older incarnation of SBW was called BLW and offered watchtowers for rent, I'm not sure what SBW does
- Phoenix would connect to a random Electrum server and would remind you to run the app periodically
- Breez by default connects to Bitcoin server of Breez itself so the user just has to trust Breez not to steal