Should You Run Your Own Bitcoin Lightning Network Node?

The Lightning Network is Bitcoin's premier off-chain scaling solution, and is basically the only way you can make small transactions these days without paying insane fees. You're supposed to run your own node to enjoy a truly decentralized process. But how important is it to run your own node? And, more importantly, how feasible is it? Here I quickly break down all you really need to know.

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