It pains me to say it after 3 years of building on it but I think lightning is ngmi, at least for non custodial pleb payments.
I think ark and liquid are fundamentally a more sound approach to L2 for...
Biggest bottleneck for me in terms of Lightning: You have to pay to participate. And quite a lot, too. The UX is also ... questionable.
It's fun as a "Twitch Bits but open source and free" - but if the easiest solution is a custodial one, how different is it, really?
I still run my CLN node, I had a lot of fun with it, but I won't exactly miss it. A little while after spent my sats via Bitrefill, I lost my channel due to an LND bug force-closing the one that Fishcake had gifted me.
Ripped me straight out of the network and... yeah, that was that. Now it's just ideling.
It's fun as a "Twitch Bits but open source and free" - but if the easiest solution is a custodial one, how different is it, really?
I still run my CLN node, I had a lot of fun with it, but I won't exactly miss it. A little while after spent my sats via Bitrefill, I lost my channel due to an LND bug force-closing the one that Fishcake had gifted me.
Ripped me straight out of the network and... yeah, that was that. Now it's just ideling.
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