Delegate receiving, keep control of sending
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we sort of delegate the receive ability to receive email on our behalf to some cloud server that we've chosen to trust for that function.
Episode 75: Liquidifying for Love (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:13:50 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Dave compares trusted Lightning receiving to POP3 email. Almost nobody runs their own mail server: we trust a cloud server to receive on our behalf and our clients pull the mail down. But we keep control of sending. Delegating receipt while holding onto spending is a reasonable trust model.