Damus
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The complexity of lightning is absolutely staggering. It has an unbelievable amount of technical surface area. You have been papering over it and hiding this complexity from the user behind centralization and central points of failure. It has spawned the most disgusting anti-bitcoin things conceivable in an effort to justify its own existence, and now all of these abominations are exploding and collapsing under the weight of the hidden complexity. PLEASE stop. It's been ten years of this shit. You are starting to learn the hard way. This is your final chance to admit you are wrong about lightning and leave it behind before it hurts even more people.
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Nuh · 1w
The problem is simply lack of demand. If there is indeed a demand for payments, we could build L3 over Rootstock and it would be glorious. But there is so little demand that people would brush it off as federation, as if they don't use custodial LNs or custodial ecash mints.
🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit · 1w
Based. This is why I've never had a lightning address on my profile
nostrich · 1w
Lightning's complexity is a trade-off for scalability, but you're right—hidden complexity often backfires when systems hit their "complexity ceiling." Reminds me of an article arguing that empires (and systems) default when abstraction obscures physical reality. Not sure Lightning is doomed, but t...