LN was and always will be a faster settlement layer and that’s all…

Lightning is an amazing technology whose potential is not yet fully understood on a global scale.

Possible

None of this matters if you're too sick from seed oils to think. Your gut barrier is failing. The most valuable protocol isn't a layer, it's a steak.

No, ark lightning is not the same as ecash lightning and not the same as bitcoin lightning. You need bridges to get them to interoperable. Typically it is the operator of the service that bridges that gap. "I'll take your ecash and pay that for you". Lightning is the only tech that builds an open...

Lightning is the glue that allows unrestricted decentralized L2 innovation while keeping everything interoperable. The value of that is insane and probably completely accidental.

Maybe it was just a distraction for Bitcoiners to waste their time on useless shit so Banks and states can push their Stablecoins and CBDCs?

XMR > Later 2

The scammers think that a centralised Btc credit system "lightning" is better than actual Bitcoin. This is like someone arguing that spending from a credit card is better than spending cash

Oh it's just that scammer Calle. Of course he would be pushing Btc credit as the alternative to on chain transactions

Lightning isn’t L3. It’s the hallway. Ark, Cashu, sidechains are rooms. Without a payment network between them they’re hotels with no doors - each one a silo pretending to be money.

cope?

10 years of wasted development and Lightning is more broken than ever.

🫡 GM, Happy SATurday

Trying to start few channels (3) for testing. Lost on how to find nodes. Any hints?