Alby is not necessarily custodial. That's how little you understand
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Monero is not about scaling for everyone?
So who should have privacy and who shouldn't?
Monero can support roughly 100x more transactions on current protocol with no more upgrades without straining current tech limits. It already cut down transaction size by ~80% since inception. It's scalability will keep improving over time and consumer tech is always getting better.
Monero is for anyone, not necessarily everyone. If you think the masses are going to want to live in a state of cryptoanarchy I think it sounds pretty copium... But anyone that wants is free to use Monero it is open and permissionless.
Ok...but it is most likely used in custodial way by vast majority of users if that list is any indication. But to steelman go ahead and pretend Alby is 100% used self-custodially. What about the other 1.6 million downloads? They don't matter? lmao
It's not 100% self custodial. It's how every lightning wallet should be, let the user decide if they want to use an lndhub account, connect to an LSP or manage their own node
I'm pointing out a fact: Lightning is overwhelmingly used custodially
I'm not saying how things should or shouldnt be.
By the way it has become worse. Wallet of Satoshi is now at 500K. Here are the new numbers:
Custodial (no privacy)
Chivo ~1Million
Wallet of Satoshi ~500K
Bitcoin Beach Wallet ~100K
Non custodial (without node, not trustless, no privacy)
Phoenix ~50K
Breez ~10K
Non custodial (with node, potential privacy)
Zeus ~5K
Chivo is El Salvador only. It's not a lightning wallet. Strike, Bitcoin beach, Peach etc. are remittance apps built on top of lightning, not lightning wallets. You left out muun, which is among the most popular "lightning" wallets despite not being one, but it's self custodial
With Phoenix implementing splicing, there's no excuse for not using it.
Anything short of running your own node is not entirely trustless, this goes for on-chain too. There are only varying degrees of trust minimization.