Almost like we have adopted a custodial Rube Goldberg machine that lends itself towards regulatory capture.
Am becoming disillusioned with LN. The UX is pretty terrible and I don’t see it improving significantly in the near future.
Discussion
The problem nostr:npub1zjx3xe49u3njkyep4hcqxgth37r2ydc6f0d7nyfn72xlpv7n97ss73pvrl was experiencing was incredibly obvious though. The channel he was sending to didn’t have enough inbound liquidity. I highly recommend watching the 3 Blue 1 Brown video on how the lightning network works.
Lightning is definitely still a series of clever hacks though. We need better LSPs or we need to consider some different models for people who aren’t interested in learning how it works and using it properly.
Timeout trees!