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Fake L2's including Spark and Ark are scams, anyone shilling them as a solution is in on it. Smuggling trust and centralization are not solutions.

Guy Swann @TheGuySwann 1762107608

I’ve seen nothing to suggest Ark doesn’t have the unilateral exit it is designed to have. I know very little of Spark, but Ark has been built entirely in the open and I see nothing to consider it any less of a viable tool than Lightning itself. Many of the same primitives enable it.

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Rizful.com · 46w

I haven't looked into Ark yet closely. But my concern is potentially the same -- this question of "unilateral exit" is so much less important than "is this this decentralized?" Spark, as we've seen, is about as decentralized as PayPal. You have to use their web servers to do anything. What about A...

Justin (shocknet) ⚡ · 46w

If you can afford a unilateral exit in the first place, you can open a Lightning channel. The scam is that it claims to offer solutions, when in fact all it does is introduce trust and centralization as trade-offs Lightning wallets can use trust and centralization to for better UX, but that doesn'...

DarthCoin ₿⚡️ · 46w

The whole interaction of Ark with the rest of the world is through LN. Yes, maybe they can send some bits and tits inside the ASP, but they will need to interact with the rest of the world to be able to make REAL payments. Ark's wrong assumption is that people will just drop the whole LN and use Ar...