Don’t strictly need those things, it’s the best tool for the job now. Lightning needs a ton of work but is super impressive, the level of improvement that can be done there means it will stay and be integral, clouds and dbs are irrelevant.
This is a hydra. It doesn’t matter what the DB is or where it’s running, you can’t chop off all the heads to bring it down nor can you corrupt the money.
No-one can censor your journalism here nor anybody else’s, and no-one can stop you getting paid.
Right, something like that. If the value exchange bit is coded in at the protocol level too, it will work. Maybe even some protocol level way of telling a client that you can't have this note/full note unless your client implements the value bit too. The protocol should enforce its core in some way.
yeah, that's coming
all these functionalities are being built at the protocol level, clients might choose to support them, or not; most clients will probably not support all features and that's a good thing.
