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1. The feeling that lightning is instant and effortless comes from big permissioned liquidity providers that opened fat channels when fees were low.
2. Not only is it impossible to open channel liquidity for all #Bitcoin, I don't see (as it stands today) how everyone will have *their own* channel liquidity.
3. Noncustodial #Lightning with embedded nodes is insanely buggy and slow. Basically DOA. Hopefully this improves.
4. Starting to understand why arkpill.me is so crucial.
Ark allows recipients to receive payments without an onboarding setup, such as acquiring inbound liquidity while preserving their receiver privacy....
^ this should completely eliminate the friction
There is still an onboarding and liquidity constraint in Ark, it's just outsourced to a third party.
This is a retarded take with 0 understanding of any of the underlying.
Lightning is just recycling on-chain transactions, if you can make a chain tx you're able to be onboarded.
No solution solves for 8bn UTXOs, fortunately that's not a realistic requirement. Community nodes are the reality.
Mobile node devs are just taking the lazy route to not look like custodians, even though most can still rug users with an update. Phones are thin clients, period.
Lightning Pub fixes sharing of remote nodes.
100% of #Bitcoin fits into arkpill.me, sir.
I really hope ark pans out or that something better than lightning comes around
Maybe in a greenfield scenario where chain space was only used for Ark instances, but that's not the case.
It's a substanceless part of the Lightning fud campaign, sponsored by the same people wanting now to recreate large political structures over Bitcoin, like federations.
The thought of Family-scale Lightning nodes running private SQL tables terrifies them.