Honestly the more and more I read into Monero the more I want to build into it. I love Bitcoin and everything's that's been built so far. But there's not enough people focusing on the big important stuff like privacy, and supply being sunk into ETFs/ETNs and "treasury companies" along with people only focusing on NGU.

Lightning is good once you understand it and build upon it. But it is slowly becoming the opposite of what it was meant to do. Over time if people only use LN it makes the main layer less protected by there being less fees for the miners working towards a block and the subsidies running out over time.

Don't get me wrong, I still believe in Bitcoin. But there's a lot of work to do. The best middle ground I found for to support both LN and the main layer is to use submarine swaps on LN/BTC to support both miners and the lightning network.