50 sats \ 3 replies \ @a40ecaacec 27 Sep \ parent \ on: Getting Started with Alby Hub bitcoin_beginners
You are right, the 1% fee is a small price to pay compared to the hassle. Running a routing node and a phoenixd node in parallel is a great idea, also to get some exp. Thanks for sharing your insight.
I wrote several guides about nodes, LN and stuff like that.
I suggest to read them first: https://darth-coin.github.io/nodes/nodes.html
Especially these 2:
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I was thinking to test between, Alby Hub (LND), Phoenixd and Lightning.Pub + Shockwallet,
just started testing Pub and looks very promissing but most of the node running is abstracted.
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LN.pub + Shock wallet are great. But unfortunately for a total noob will not be so easy to start. I think it require some level of knowledge about how a LN node works.
For a simple LN user, using Shock wallet as a client from an "uncle Jim" node, is great and easy and you can even manage multiple accounts in the same UI. Same as using Alby Go but without multi-accounts.
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