I know; seems strange lightning gets shit on by banks and Saylor etc.
Discussion
Banks will shit on everyone.
Saylor is engaged in the full blown TradFi sales pitch mode to send BTC higher. So he won't talk much about fun topics like coinjoin and lightning, yet. I don't recall saylor shitting on lighting?
He envisions MSTR being a "Bitcoin bank" and bitcoin having intermediaries. He has shit on lightning / coinjoin etc from the start which makes me question his motives .
Question his motivation all you want. The point is it doesn’t matter how much shirt 👚 crap 💩 coin he sells. It’s predatory on people who don’t understand how pie 🥧 in math 🧮 works. #btconly
Bluntly: the idea of becoming a “whole coiner” is an ego thing. It doesn’t matter as #sats can be drilled down almost to infinity.
Losing the desire of being a whole-coiner may be a lost “trophy” some have yet to accept. Long-term strategy though.
Make sense?
MSTR will likely be a Bitcoin investment bank by 2030.
Most people will use intermediaries to use BTC. For various reasons. (complexity / costs / risks / smaller transactions / regulations)
I think he's just selling it to TardFi and telling them what they want to hear. He's using the lightning network for some projects within the company I believe.
I don't think MSTR makes it that far. I don't think there are such thing as investment banks in a bitcoin world.
The free market is a far better capital allocator