# Lightning Service Providers (LSPs) Links: [[Lightning]] ### ["A Mobile Lightning User Goes to Pay a Mobile Lightning User..."](https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02559.html) Mailing list post initiated by [[Matt Corallo]] on [[2021-10-12]] ## [[Breez]]: ["Introducing Lightning Service Providers"](https://medium.com/breez-technology/introducing-lightning-service-providers-fe9fb1665d5f) Written by [[Roy Sheinfeld]] (Excerpts) ### What is an LSP? Even experienced, technically sophisticated users could use some help to avoid non-obvious obstacles. For example, even a user willing and able to open her own channels manually will have to spend money first (i.e. move local balances outward to create inbound capacity) before she can receive money, which is the opposite of what most new users would prefer. In choosing a hub for her initial connection, how can she tell which ones are stable and well connected? Even if she uses autopilot to help find active hubs, opening channels with the hubs it recommends is still a bet on the hubs’ stability. She’s betting her set-up fees that she won’t have to repeat the process should one of these hubs decide to close the channel unilaterally. Those are the kinds of problems LSPs solve. They provide users with a stable connection to the Lightning network, simplified channel management, and liquidity. ## Excerpt from [[Lightning UX#Lightning at the End of the Tunnel Overcoming Bitcoin’s UX Challenges https medium com breez-technology lightning-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-overcoming-bitcoins-ux-challenges-5738171c759e|2019 Lightning UX Blog Post by Breez]] ![[Lightning UX#Lightning Service Providers]]