As usual at the Lugano PlanB forum, I made lots of Lightning payments. Not a single one failed, and I made them from the same crappy self hosted node as always. Just two years ago, the chance for a $100 payment to go through was about fifty fifty, and I had to sometimes ask if they could split it in two smaller payments. Sometimes we even had to make it on-chain instead. Nowdays the experience is just great.
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But I must say, I am disapointed by the Naka guys who make the POS terminals that you see everywhere in Lugano. Two yers ago I asked them when they will support BoltCards. They promised one year. Last year it was not working, and they again promised one year. This year it's still not working, and now they didn't even promise anything. T
he coffee bycicle in front of the venue accepted NFC LN cards, and the experience was even better than with the phone.
Naka terminals have been very slow with LN. At least it worked.