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Nobody likes to admit that running self-custodial lightning is not even close to changing your own oil...it is more like extracting rubber from a tree, chopping down the tree for wood, and mining for graphite simply to make your own pencil.

It is so bad that we are talking about going back to fucking ecash MINTS (an idea that was abandoned in the 90's for centralization risks) just to make it make sense.

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Rich Nost 1y ago

This post was mostly to provoke.

But I do find it ironic that we criticze ethereum for being overly naiveand shifting narratives to suit the inconvenient facts on the ground...and now we are doing the same thing by saying lightning is now rails for trusted banks with weak proof mechanisms, hoping that the angels of human nature will keep the banks small and communal.

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Rich Nost 1y ago

At least Bitcoin thoroughly tapped the "make lightning work for the norms" keg, before capitulating. Ethereum does it every 6 months, and we committed to contorting ourselves around lightning for 6 years.