PayPal has permanently locked GrapheneOS out of their donations.... "We currently receive more donations via Monero than Bitcoin..... Monero is the only reliable trickle of many small crypto donations." "We could end up in a similar situation to the one we're having with PayPal if we set up Lightning poorly by using a custodial service or use software/hardware which ends up failing and doesn't have proper backups for the money in channels." "We don't see much point in using Lightning unless we're running our own Lightning node on top of a Bitcode full node with local hardware and proper backups. We want to do it but it's not easy to do it the way we want. We aren't simply going to deploy someone's Docker images, etc." "We're in the process of determining the best way for us to host an always-on local Lightning node with a WireGuard tunnel from a cloud server. We also need to figure out hosting lnurl so that people can actually use it." #nostr #bitcoin #privacy #privacymatters #xmr