Hi, thanks for posting about this.
We built this project, you can see some background about us here:
https://megalithic.me/... And you can see a description of the service here:
https://rizful.com/Rizful is designed for people who want to run a Lightning Node, keep relatively small balances on it, but don't want to actually run the node on their OWN machine..... You can see our guide to ACTUALLY running your own lightning node, on your own machine here:
https://docs.megalithic.me/category/should-i-run-a-lightning-nodeRunning a Lightning Node on your OWN hardware effectively requires 24/7 uptime -- i.e. a computer you never turn off, and an internet connection that never goes down. It's a interesting thing to do, but not for everyone.
So if you try Rizful, you'll see that you have your own Lightning Node running in the "the cloud". Note: It's not a "web wallet" as such -- it's literally an entire Lightning Node -- you can open and close your own channels, etc. If you are interested in the technical side -- we're using Docker to give each user his own node.
One issue we found with a lot of "node in the cloud" solutions was that they were pretty slow to start and stop nodes... Rizful is designed that, if you want, you can have a "disposable" node -- i.e. literally start one up, open some channels, sends some sats around, and then literally stop and delete it five minutes later.
But --Yes, you are relying on us to keep the service up-and-running... but most of all -- you should not use Rizful or really ANY online service to store SIGNIFICANT amounts of BTC -- you should always use a hardware wallet with a seed backup... Rizful (and other cloud nodes, and actually Lightning Nodes in general!) .. should be looked at as "hot wallet" where you only store a small fraction of your sats, that you might want to spend in the near future.
Rizful is also designed around NWC -- Nostr Wallet Connect -- which allows you to hook up your node to lots of Nostr application.
Any questions, please feel free to shoot!
thanks!
