Lightning is an incredible thing to understand. The way in which it eliminates trust is both incredibly primitive and revolutionary at the same time.

Did you know that when you open a channel, your partner sends a “blank check” pre-signing the transaction for closure? Your threat to use it is what keeps him from blackmailing you using his signature as a ransom.

It goes even far deeper than that.

Totally doesn’t scale but that’s the next generations problem - what we have is the fact we know a trustless payment system can exist.