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In my opinion, everything from George Orwell is worth reading, not only the classics like 1984 and animal but also other less known books like Down and Out in Paris or London and Homage to Catalonia. Not only was Orwell so prescient about his prediction of the future of the world and understanding of deep human psychology but he was also a great writer very pleasant to read, highly recommended!
The solution is simple and I wrote an extensive guide on Umbrel forum:
Use Umbrel + Tailscale + lndhub
https://community.getumbrel.com/t/how-to-use-umbrel-with-tailscale/
Tor is unreliable for these things and also is useless to connect over Tor to your own node. You don't trust enough yourself?
I also strongly suggest to use the LNDhub from LNbits instead of the BW one. Works much better and you have even more options and features.
I wrote several guides about that:
https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/umbrel-node-lnbits
https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/the-bank-of-lnbits
https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/lnbits-for-small-merchants
https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/build-your-own-lnbits-app-server
Serious LN dev is hard and time consuming, I no longer have time or resources to keep it up or even maintain what has been developed so far. In my opinion the whole LN protocol is overly complex and is getting worse and at this point can only be developed by very few high profile specialists at a very slow pace.
That probably sums up his real objection 100%. Lightning is just too complex for his skill set, and he's angry that he's being pushed out of wallet development because of that. Meanwhile Lightning is a success, and adoption of it keeps going up, pushing out on-chain Bitcoin stuff. Which also pisses him off.
Even today you can still use their “old” website. I’m really surprised they haven’t killed it yet since they effectively killed third party apps with their API pricing changes.
Notice how in that example pre-opening a lightning channel to their node would be an improvement on the pure on-chain experience.
Unfortunately the UI/UX challenges of making that easy are formidable.
My thoughts: would you like to use your own Matrix server for collaboration and not Discord as Discord is centralized?