You know that Lighting is not very good tech

When it was built since day 1 to be blockchain agnostic

With atomic swaps between chains being heavily advertised in the beginning

And a year of scrutiny & testing on Litecoin

Only for Litecoin to stop maintaining it

Decred is the only other chain that still supports Lightning

And Lightning on Bitcoin, in spite of all the hype and heavy marketing, has less than 0.023% of supply locked in channels and only works decently when heavily centralized (though there are failed transactions even between custodial wallets)

What a waste of time and resources! If only we didn’t put all eggs in this basket and encouraged the market participants to come up with the best designs for scaling solutions where self custody + unilateral exit are non-negotiable

But then again, I’m pretty sure that the companies supporting Bitcoin developed secretly hope nothing ever gets achieved so CBDCs and other centralized solutions can get adopted within this short window of opportunity

Tether on Tron is the best example of such a product. So successful even the most hardcore maxis are afraid to criticize
it due to various conflicts of interest