"Why aren't more people running their own Lightning nodes?"
Skill issues, fear of losing funds, receiving on LN is actually effortless even without a node so there seems to be no actual reason to do so.
Panel of the day on Main Stage at nostr:npub1dwah6u025f2yy9dgwlsndntlfy85vf0t2eze5rdg2mxg99k4mucqxz7c52 Lightning++ Edition: Walton ofnostr:npub1dwah6u025f2yy9dgwlsndntlfy85vf0t2eze5rdg2mxg99k4mucqxz7c52 moderates the panel "Scaling Lightning" with
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Discussion
"It's not the best idea to onboard someone to Bitcoin with self-custodial Lightning solutions, costs are high and UX is not good enough", according to Calle.
"People just expect to receive money, they do not want to go through liquidity and other stuff." - Shinobi
Graduated wallet seems to be a good UX solution, helping people building their Bitcoin knowledge step-by-step.
"Is Lightning the end? It's a mean to an end" - Alex
Lightning has a tendency to centralization, just like the internet, due to efficiency gains.
However, anyone can join the network on the same level as the others, contrary to the internet, which is more gated.
The important part is to build privacy feature as soon as possible, and don't leave them for the future. We may not be able to build them later. - Evan
"Is the world relying too much on Tor for privacy? Aboslutely!" - Alex
Lightning seems not to be the best way to incentives systems like Tor or similar, since it is very good when it works, but it is really bad when it does not. - Calle
Is the current low fee environment a sign of little demand for Bitcoin transactions or it is a hint on the fact that Lightning is scaling it? - Walton
How much of the growth of LN will be driven by other layers (cashu, ark, etc.) and how much to assets built on it?
Tx volume of stablecoins is way higher than the one of Bitcoin, so it probably will be the second.