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btc_insider_edition 2 months ago
Greenlight is an attempt to onboard new users to Lightning without giving them all the burden of it from the beginning. The goal is to provide a first onboarding onto Bitcoin ecosystem running the node for the user until he is ready to graduate to self-hosting.
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btc_insider_edition 2 months ago
End-user nodes usually check it 3-4 times a day, so the idea is to have node spinning up just once the user comes online to use the node. Optimization was done on start-up, spinning up in 1s, connecting to peers in a couple and be ready in a short amount of time. Always-on is an illusion.
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