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waxwing · 1w
Peter ( @Peter Todd ) was 1st on this from what I remember. From around the days of "cypherpunk desert bus" [1] It explains why we L2. It explains why the otherwise idiotic "build privacy on top of t...
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Exactly

Which is why I'm excited by the "Ark as channel factory" idea that René Pickhardt has been pushing

Ark doesn't really improve privacy, or settlement speed, compared to L1. It helps a *lot* with scaling though

So we build Lightning on top of Ark. Ark is Layer 1.5, and is much more scalable. Then we build Lightning directly on top of Ark, to get privacy and another big multiple of scalability

https://youtu.be/hqKQ4Rky3tY
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nout · 1w
So all of lightning would rely on single (at most 4-5) Ark providers? That would suck... while you can exit, they can block you.