Depends on what you’re doing with bitcoin.
Hodl bitcoin onchain and want to confirm your own transactions? Believe in the network and decentralization? Run a bitcoin node. Super easy and the only real investment is a decent sized SSD.
Use lightning a lot for large amounts? Want maximum control and privacy of your lightning wallet? Then try a lightning node. More options and a little more complicated than a regular node to setup but not extremely complicated. The difficulty comes from managing channel liquidity constantly, not something that you can just set and forget. Also tend to spend a lot in fees opening and closing channels so may cost more than it’s worth to run.
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npub18d…lh8x3
2024-08-06 16:00:27
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npub18dlusgmprudw46nracaldxe9hz4pdmrws8g6lsusy6qglcv5x48s0lh8x3Published at
2024-08-06 16:00:27Event JSON
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