A thorough deep dive into lightning (hardware and software) would be really helpful. Little snippets scattered across the web are out of date, and it's hard to get a good picture of the network in terms of what it makes sense to do in terms of setting up a node or going custodial.
Lighting absolutely does not take 5-10 seconds to settle a payment. Looking at payments from one of the largest custodial providers settlements are *way* faster than that most of the time.
Sure, if you’re sending from a shitty node that doesn’t have good pathfinding[1] then it can take a bunch of retries and a while, but, like, don’t do that? Cashu could take 5 seconds if you hit bad Tor relays, but, again, like, don’t do that 🤷♂️.
[1] https://lightningdevkit.org/blog/ldk-pathfinding/ nostr:note1ga0k4pvr97klk8er8c4ca3qux94lj6rc766gf8zjsaf5mheqy8zshwe9ln
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