I am sure the LN devs will eventually make everything dumb proof. They will basically find a way to do everything automatically which you need to do manually right now. I am not worried about that. Writing code for automation is probably ez.
I want to try setting up my LN node for fun a
nd the guide I read tells me that I need to sync a btc full node first. I used to run my full node but I stopped doing it because I have dynamic IP and some of the IP's I get are bad IP's. Port forwarding doesn't work on those bad IP's (I can't upload data to my peers). Does it make a difference for running a LN node? If it does is it possible to connect to someone else's node to run my LN node?
Funded about 0.5 BTC to play with across a bunch of channels, pulled out 0.26 BTC after shutting everything down. Fucked around with Satoshi's place a bit, bought some stickers, but I believe most of the 0.24 BTC I didn't get back was blown on channel open/close fees, and possibly just "lost" due to bugs and shit.
I thought it wasn't possible to lose funds on LN. I know there might be bugs and shit, the stuff is still in beta but this is the first time actually I heard about somebody who managed to lose his funds. Even if its in beta, I thought It wasn't really possible to lose your coins. :/ I would have freaked out If I had lost 0.26btc for trying science lol.