Worst. “Professional” is code for “something a business would buy”, which also means “you’re not the one using this”.

Also heuristic-based replacements please. Strict diagram comparison is nuts and enables pinning attacks!

Honestly why bother? No one uses Spark on the assumption that they can exit or that it’s somehow trustless, the point is that it’s better than custodial and Lightspark is taking on the legal risk instead of someone else.

If you actually care about trustless something you’ve gotta do a graduated wallet or LN+Ark.

Yes…

@waxwing and @notmandatory since damus doesn’t carry over RT tags.

Problem is any time you transact (and sometimes other times!) the “recovery bundle” changes. So you can’t back it up/download it, your wallet needs to support this natively (and I don’t believe any do).

Zero spark clients today implement unilateral exit without asking a server for their list of coins to exit. Makes it…. Not very unilateral.

Or on top of. L-ARK seems like kinda the best of both worlds if you’re worried about low-balance user onboarding.

I disagree, you could do a graduated wallet, or you could have an LSP that locks up less liquidity and charges comparatively higher fees. Of course in that case the LSP would never need to charge more than on-chain - you still get *some* “compression”.

None of the constraints you raise are required for lighting, they’re just things people did to make simplified versions of the economics of an LSP work out. An LSP putting in a bit more effort, or conjoining the wallet with a graduated wallet design, makes it way more doable.

lol no I mean a mobile app with lightning built in.

Who said anything about hosting a routing node? That’s not what I was talking about at all…