Replying to Avatar Matt

Thanks for adding to my bearishness 😂

I've never aimed to make profit personally from Lightning. I just want to use it to transact. Frankly, it sucks for that purpose no matter which tools I've used. So I'm not sure what the point of it is. The whole flow into Bitcoin for me was that Bitcoin isnt private and you eventually won't be able to buy coffees on chain. Use this thing called Lightning. Cool, except it sucks ass unless I'm willing to cross my fingers (point 1) and yolo into something less reliable and more complex. And going the centralized route only obfuscates those things (I could still get fucked) AND loses the privacy improvement.

I think I've misunderstood Lightning from the start, likely due to miseducation from good intentioned people.

Hopefully things improve. I'm not bearish in that I don't think it can or will. It just doesn't seem to be. It seems more like everyone thinks it's finished and ready. Maybe it is, but it simply isn't made for me if it is.
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mike 5mo ago

The easier something is to use, the harder it is to provision.

As a user of Lightning, it works incredibly well, as a provisioner it is complex and requires skill and understanding.

It's worth learning the skill before you decide whether it is for you or not.

Fiat banking is difficult and costly, which is why there aren't many of them, using a fiat bank is easy.

Same as NOSTR, at the surface level it is easy, as you start taking control of your eco-system it becomes harder.

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