Sovtoshi on Nostr: In theory you could connect your lightning node to an external Bitcoin node, but ...
In theory you could connect your lightning node to an external Bitcoin node, but there does need to be a connection of some kind to do anything like open and close channels and keep track of those on chain changes etc.
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