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Fix needed : inaccurate categorization of Phoenix and Eclair Mobile

Open dpad85 opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

Describe the error

In Chapter 2: Getting Started, §Lightning Wallets: Phoenix and Eclair Mobile are categorized as "lightweight", which means:

... the wallet does not operate a Lightning node and thus needs to obtain information about the Lightning Network over the internet from someone else’s Lightning node.

This is inaccurate, as both wallets do run a regular Lightning node, and do not depend on information from a third-party Lightning node to operate.

Phoenix and Eclair Mobile open, manage, and close their channels themselves without need of a third-party. They monitor the blockchain through Electrum servers (and you can easily configure the app to use your own server), and will keep doing that in the background if you do not use the app regularly.

To Fix

Both apps should be marked as Full Node.

Additional context

Feel free to ask any questions about those apps, we at ACINQ would be glad to answer you!

dpad85 avatar Dec 08 '21 15:12 dpad85