Self Hosting: The Cloud Is Someone Else's Computer
summary
Explains concrete paths for self‑hosting: use Start9 / StartOS to run a home node and connect over Tor, or run light clients like Zeus and Mutiny that either connect to LSPs or run wallets on the phone; LSPs open thousands to tens of thousands of private channels and can provide liquidity with just one channel, but Justin‑time channel creation carries a roughly 10‑minute rug risk during confirmation. Demonstrates encrypted cloud backups, Fedimint adoption doubling after launch, and how to run a Wasabi coordinator via BTCPayServer for coinjoins.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Self-hosting sovereignty
- 1:29Trusting others with data
- 2:12Self-custody wallets Zeus Mutiny
- 5:23Bitcoin sovereignty spectrum
- 7:50LSP wallets vs full nodes
- 14:35Lightning Service Providers
- 18:47Regular users running LSPs
- 20:57Centralization risks LSPs mixers
- 23:28Open-sourcing LSP code
- 25:57Crackdowns on mixing tech
- 27:23Call to self-host and hold keys
