I have come to the realization that what's stopping me from running lightning projects,
as the one I'd proposed last year, is custody of the coins. I don't want to leave custody to some server I don't have physical access, and even if services like DigitalOcean have quite
the best reviews when it comes to security, I don't want to buy their expensive services for just starting my project; if it's working towards success, I may migrate to them, but not at start.
As far as I've seen, there is no other way to establish a lightning service if you don't do one of the following:
- Run a lightning node in that VPS.
- Give your home-running node's macaroon access file.
Both of which give the VPS provider the authority to sign payments.
(Reminder that to have a properly running node, you need some good financial capacity)Is there a way to have the VPS communicating over my home node via Tor, at least without forfeiting custody nor payment authority?
