You donβt need a βnodeβ on your phone if that means paying 50% per transaction for it. It is just a shiny object with zero value
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If we can get 1% of the world's population to run a node on a computer I'll eat my mnemonics.
Then you should focus on that instead of pushing people to run a βnodeβ on their phones and paying an arm and a leg for it.
The value is in the hardware infrastructure, the channel management, and the liquidity management.
Sausages. Why doesn't everyone just make them themselves? Because, not everyone cares about how the sausages are made. They just want to eat delicious spicy meat.
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If I want to send you 21 sats, I have to send 11 sats to Zeus. How does that make any sense?
If normies want everything to be easy, and idiot proof, just use a credit card or PayPal.
I agree here. It doesn't make sense for sending pennies. It makes more sense for actual transactions in the real world. Not Zaps.