Yes, the solution is "don't spend small amounts". That's why we have layer 2 protocols.
Gold had a similar problem in ancient times. Small amounts would get lost/stolen. Hence the eventual development of layer 2 protocols consisting of pieces of paper representing gold deposits. And the cycle continues.
Makes sense to me. I’m trying to figure out what the best practice user flows are for regular people then.
Like can we think of lightning channels like bar tabs? Isn’t the cost of opening and closing a channel small enough to be considered “dust” as well?
As a lightning channel, you *could* transfer an amount equal to the small change you have on hand to another channel - perhaps overpaying the imbalance. That would require software support (rather tedious to calculate manually).
Man, the whole “balancing” thing with lightning is so confusing.
It would be cool if there was a lightning app that didn’t hide that functionality, but instead displayed it in a really intuitive manner
