Anything that relies on Blockchains to process transactions can't scale, especially ones that trades off bloat for privacy (ring ct) - if everyone used it, nobody could run a full node.

You need different layers that make different trade offs to actually be viable

> I don't have a reason to disagree.

Lightning is definitely Bitcoin, you can trustlessly revert back to mainchain at anytime

> Lightning has to be reverted back to the mainchain, which is Bitcoin. Lightning isn't Bitcoin.

I'm also more of a fan of Lightning and Ecash than Monero.