I tend to think this is mostly an issue caused by LND and experienced by LND users. Since I've switched to CLN I've had a very good experience.

I think the Lightning Labs team needs to focus less on implementing shitcoins on lightning and more on the stability of their node implementation. Bolt 12 would be nice as well.

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What is the "market share" of CLN vs LND?

I'm pretty sure LND is dominant like 70%.

Their implementation was pretty easy to use early on and many developers built lightning apps that would only run on top of LND. IMO, CLN was built the right way with the plugin architecture but it was a bit more of a learning curve so LND seized a massive market share early on.

wait what lightning labs doing shitcoin?

LL is building Taro, which allows to issue and transmit "Assets" on lightning iiuc

This is NOT more important than BOLT-12 IMO but I guess they are trying to figure out a way to make a buck.

https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/taproot-assets