Everyone: Lightning is a failure

This makes no sense to me because I don't even understand the criteria of saying it's a failure. Nobody even uses Bitcoin to make payments, that's not lightning's fault. And for the 1% of 1% who actually make any payments, lightning is the only L2 that exists and is the only one that actually works. We can call lightning a failure when we create a circular economy of Bitcoin where merchants accept it and people actually pay with it and then lightning doesn't work in such an economy. The only circular economy we have is white dudes posting tik tok videos of buying coffee in El Salvador and lightning seems to be working fine there.

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ā€œLightning is deadā€

and this is just a part... is not displaying the private nodes and channels....

Nobody uses Bitcoin because the culture has been hijacked by price speculators who tells everyone to HODL.

Custody Lightning works well but its custodial meanwhile Self-Custody Lightning is unaccessible, and difficult for average users.

I have even heard many horror stories from Bitcoin experts who've had issues with Lightning.

They should try again, there’s been improvements in the time that has passed.

It wasn’t inaccessible for me. I’ve used self custodial LN for years.

I make lightning payments every day. Bought items from three different counties via lightning just this week alone.

Same, use it often

Who is "everyone"?

You obviously haven’t been to Czech Republic and it shows, but I pay with LN everyday.

Sometimes I spend upwards of $200 or $300 over lighting in a given week.

If they think lighting is broke; they themselves must be broken. #selfsovereign

I've been living on Bitcoin for 12 years and I can pay EVERYWHERE with Bitcoin. If you can't it's not Bitcoin, it's you.