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It pains me to say it after 3 years of building on it but I think lightning is ngmi, at least for non custodial pleb payments.

I think ark and liquid are fundamentally a more sound approach to L2 for end users.

If it REQUIRES the end user to run infrastructure, even if that is just a phone, it's going to be too janky to actually scale.

Not to mention that somehow lightning is already more ossified than L1...

If we continue down the custodian route people will get rugged or KYC d

I am ready for your hate, but this is my current take. Also would be happy to be proven wrong.

Now back to sshing into my node and working on chantools to recover a force closed channel utxo that lnd didn't report.

Totally easy for everyday users to solve if they run into this problem...
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Jack D 2y ago

Does it have to be normie approachable? Some of the coolest things on the internet remain hard to use. LN is fun.

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utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 2y ago

I think yes if we actually want the world to use Bitcoin for payments.

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This is a question i grapple with...if you build for the world do you just end up with lowest common denominator dogshit ? Or do you build the tool that are robust and can allow some people to opt out and create economies outside the dogshit. I dunno the answer