Custodial layer 2 on lightning, if there’s enough competition, will likely always allow you to withdraw and self custody your savings… even if there’s a premium to that feature, the market will pay and companies respond accordingly to profit motives. My hopes anyway. Cheers

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you can never permissionlessly exit from a channel that you did not personally open

No kidding, I think it’s generally correct though that most people will not operate their own lightning channels as unfortunate as that may seem. I’m providing an optimistic market view that this won’t be all Orwellian due to market forces

I think payment channel based solutions belong in the trash bin