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Lightning Network and The Lightning Network Daemon (LND)

The biggest cost component of Bitcoin mining is time. No matter how much you increase your hash power, you can only mine it every _ten_ minutes.

Bitcoin & Time

Do you firmly believe that owning a portion of KYC'd BTC can be beneficial in some situations? For example, wanting to purchased property with proof of funds as a requirement. I'd like to hear your thoughts on this topic.

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LN Hosted Channels in OBW [Questions]

Thank you sir for this detailed response, and I hope this discussion benefits the community, and especially new members who want to learn more about the LN ecosystem.

If I may ask, could you please elaborate more on my 2nd question? Right now I'm looking at a hosted channel with 500k sats of inbound capacity opened with SATM at zero cost using OBW

How do I get some outbound liquidity (preferably using LN)? Do I send this hosted channel some sats from another LN wallet, say WoS or Phoenix, then spend it (I could send it back to my own wallet that I sent from, for example) and therefore acquire outbound liquidity?

GM Stackers ⚡

In [OBW](https://github.com/nbd-wtf/obw) (Open Bitcoin Wallet) there's an option to use a Hosted Channel and acquire a channel with provided inbound liquidity with one of these 3 providers: [SATM](https://1ml.com/node/02cd1b7bc418fac2dc99f0ba350d60fa6c45fde5ab6017ee14df6425df485fb1dd), [Jiraiya](https://1ml.com/node/02c16cca44562b590dd279c942200bdccfd4f990c3a69fad620c10ef2f8228eaff), and [Ergvein](https://1ml.com/node/034a7b1ac1239ff2ac8438ce0a7ade1048514b77d4322f514e96918e6c13944861)

My questions are:

* 1. If I wish to use [Blixt](https://github.com/hsjoberg/blixt-wallet) mobile wallet or [Zap](https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-desktop) desktop wallet and connect to the  providers mentioned above, will I get the same hosted channel functionality? Or it can only be achieved using OBW?

* 2. Are there any other *free* hosted channel providers beside the ones I mentioned above? And what is the best way to discover & connect with them please?

* 3. With a hosted channel using OBW, the user benefits from inbound liquidity right on the spot, but how to acquire outbound liquidity on such channels?

I'd appreciate your feedback and insight on this topic, and thank you in advance for your support!

GM

Is Zap wallet still under regular development and/or maintenance? I tried reaching out via their support email a few months back and did not hear back from them yet. I'd appreciate any insight or info.

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I recently stumbled upon a fellow pleb's YouTube channel, he's got a decent & simply put content going on explaining Bitcoin and with the help of one of his videos I was able to onboard a friend to join the BTC sphere.

Here's the [video](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_9TI4Pzl-RQ) that caught my attention most.

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GM Stackers!

Upon installing Zap, it syncs to the blockchain, is it a full sync & download like the core wallet, or just syncing block headers like Electrum does.

For those of you who are already using it, how much space is it taking on your drive?

Thank you for your feedback.