yes, liveness is where LN is weaker but it has way less trust dependency than ecash
ecash is literally what came before bitcoin, it's not a solution, it's just banking, you could apply the shit to anything, there is nothing in bitcoin specific that is used by ecrap
it could just as easily be applied to ethereum or tether, that is the whole point, that's the TRUST part
I get it. there are tradeoffs to most scaling solutions. ecash is clearly over the "custodian" line on scaling tradeoffs.
lightning protocol is an elegant solution to minimizing the cost of trust, the main risk is having a channel force closed and having to wait up to 2 weeks for it to come back to your onchain wallet
and really, it's just a matter of prioritizing this to save some sats to do this, once you have 2-3 outbound channels open (so, about $1500 worth) you can just keep putting money through it, in, out, it's cheaper by literally 1000x than a credit card or bank transfer, and even cheaper than onchain fees, for a reason, because it's avoiding doing onchain
