Well realistically most people in the world aren't going to care about self custody. Most people are going to buy Bitcoin to save money because its price goes up.
I understand and agree, but here's the problem: the whole point is self-custody, not (only) because it gives the user some significant advantage. It's the whole point, because it makes the network unstoppable by state actors.
I'm myself using custodial LN when I want to make a payment from my mobile phone, and it's fine for small amounts, but it's not the right path to take, IMO. Custodial solutions create money transmitting businesses which besides regulatory problems, act as central point of failures. What if the authorities decide to take down LN hubs with the excuse that they facilitate money laundering? At the current state, network's liquidity would seriously reduce.
I have been wondering if there is a business model in having a well funded well connected node that people who run their own LN nodes can connect to so they can have self custody BUT they do not have to worry about finding routes. If you do not plan on receiving
BTC then you don't have to worry about having inbound liquidity.
There are enough 1 button install nodes (mynodebtc, umberl, raspiblitz, etc) that setting one up is now more a 1 click thing. Having a 1 click route too might be good.
The issues now are that a lot of the large well connected places want a lot of
BTC locked up if you want to open a channel to them. I was thinking that having one set to allow you to open a channel with
BTC0.0005 or
BTC0.001
Not going to do it, don't have the time or
BTC, but just thinking if there might be a business model in there.
-Dave