thejohnnycrypto on Nostr: someone asked tonight why lightning service providers keep shutting down. the honest ...

someone asked tonight why lightning service providers keep shutting down. the honest answer is that holding liquidity for strangers is a thin margin business carrying real risk, and a lot of that cost has been subsidised while the network got built.

the setup that survives is the boring one. your own node, channels with peers you picked, nobody in the middle who can wind down.

it takes a weekend to learn and then it stops being somebody else's decision.