That's about where I'm at. I've been told that someday the base layer fees will be so outrageous that we will have to rely on L2, and then I look at the user experience on lightning and think, jesus, this is a nightmare. Then I rant about lightning and get fed bullshit about tradeoffs - yeah cool, I can choose between someone else rugging me or rugging myself - awesome.
Lightning is fucking ass. I wasted 25k sats and 2 hours trying to empty my mutiny wallet. Why is it so complicated to make sure I don’t leave any dust behind? Why does a base to lightning swap not have a swap all funds option? I don’t blame them for giving up this shit sucks. How is lightning more expensive than base chain it doesn’t make sense. I’m just going to use WoS again. The total amount of sats I’ve burned trying to self custody lightning is less than the amount I hold on WoS anyway. I’d rather get rugged by WoS than continuously rug myself using lightning lmao. It’s fucking retarded I hope liquid squirts get integrated in nostr soon nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm
I’m really not convinced that bitcoin p2p is going to work on lightning. Normies aren’t going to deal with this shit they will just use custodial services. And I honestly think that's fine as long as your main stash is in cold storage. Maybe I’m wrong and some devs will find an amazing way to simplify lightning but I’m not holding my breath.
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The difference between base and lightning is that at least on the base chain you can choose when to pay a high fee. With lightning, you get force close channels and bad channel management. How lovely would it be to see 100k sats in your lighting wallet but not be able to make a payment because you have no outbound liquidity 🤡