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well, this is stupid. must have been a decent sized payment too because i have a good amount of channel liquidity. honestly this is a great reminder that the average person will never use lightning in a non-custodial way. no one wants to dick around with balancing channels all the time. people just want to send and receive bitcoin fast and cheap. image

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Seems like it would be a good idea for them to add an auto rebalance feature to keep a desired amount of inbound liquidity on each channel. Idk. I've run 5 lightning nodes in the past, and currently just use @Rizful.com and am happy with it. I use LN for small payments, I don't particularly care if someone else fascilitates the transactions for me.
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well, this is stupid. must have been a decent sized payment too because i have a good amount of channel liquidity. honestly this is a great reminder that the average person will never use lightning in a non-custodial way. no one wants to dick around with balancing channels all the time. people just want to send and receive bitcoin fast and cheap. image
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Yeah it's pretty tragic, private non custodial lightning is DOA. Only viable options are LSP based wallets like Phoenix with JIT 0conf channels which open new channels when you recieve large payments. Costs a lot in fees though and you have minimal privacy from ACINQ. Its that or your risk loss of funds, censorship, freezing etc. with custodial solutions. All have horrible privacy other than ecash too.