Either risk your pot with Saylor and co. to recieve a juicy divvy but inherit custody risks (Include ETFs as a risk with no divvy)
Or hold your own BSR and utilise it by earning sats by operating a public Ln node
Hmmm sounds good but the report downplays channel rebalancing, forced closures and constant maintenance for a 4% return?
Or more positively, hodl your stack without risk of custody, learn Ln infrastructure and earn 4% while you're at it
Or be lazy give it to Saylor/Fink and let them deal with the hassle
I think Zeus are onto something here, protecting your stack while monetising it, and most importantly educating more entities into running real true and pure Lightning (not ark,spark,shart) will grow and evolve Lightning but it comes at a cost, and that is there is no such thing as a free lunch, you gotta put in what you get out
What’s cool about the LN is how it turns theory into practice—real people, real liquidity, real usage. It’s still early, but the foundations of a working, open economy are clearly forming.
I like how Zeus and Block are raising their hands and saying, "Uh, we make money running a lightning node."
So many people have been down on lightning in the last year or two, it's cool to see what these professionals can do.
So the tl:dr is:So the tl:dr is:
Either risk your pot with Saylor and co. to recieve a juicy divvy but inherit custody risks
(Include ETFs as a risk with no divvy)
Or hold your own BSR and utilise it by earning sats by operating a public Ln node
Hmmm sounds good but the report downplays channel rebalancing, forced closures and constant maintenance for a 4% return?
Or more positively, hodl your stack without risk of custody, learn Ln infrastructure and earn 4% while you're at it
Or be lazy give it to Saylor/Fink and let them deal with the hassle
I think Zeus are onto something here, protecting your stack while monetising it, and most importantly educating more entities into running real true and pure Lightning (not ark,spark,shart) will grow and evolve Lightning but it comes at a cost, and that is there is no such thing as a free lunch, you gotta put in what you get out
I think that's the way to think about it for most people
Companies can do this at scale. Hobby node runners don’t have capital or the technical expertise to get this level of return.
Correct, and if the big players implement lightning correctly it can lead to a widespread adoption of the correct use of Bitcoin
Where things go wrong is when dark forces try to co-opt it by promoting their scams
What’s cool about the LN is how it turns theory into practice—real people, real liquidity, real usage. It’s still early, but the foundations of a working, open economy are clearly forming.
Zeus!!!!! Love it!!
Disclaimer: I own a channel with Olympus