Just my humble opinion, as things currently stand, I see running an LN node as a (mini) financial service industry, it's just available for anyone who wants to do it (unlike the legacy financial services)
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I agree that this works now, but when scaling up you will get to a point where it will become impossible for people to open up a channel because evey channel required an on-chain transaction and we will run out of transaction space way before onboarding every person on the planet.
This is realistically still very far off and maybe lightning is not the end game at all, but ecash does give you some options in terms of further scaling up the lightning network for now.
We have to keep inventing here even if the outcome is not the perfect one.
If it's true about the tx space, then it feels like any L2 will have a similar outcome in the long run.
So maybe LN is already as good as it gets 🙂 and Cashu is the right way forward.
Maybe, but i could see somebody come with an L2 that works different and maybe better than lightning.
In terms of ecash there are already different options out there and the innovation on that front is also still relatively early. There is still a lot in development to decrease trust or make it more verifiable by having proof of reserve on the mint side and building up reputation as a mint.
If there is no solution to go in and out of L2 with less than 2 transactions most people on earth will never get to do anything on-chain in the long run.