Do you understand Paul’s point? If Lightning coalesces around a handful of powerful nodes (maybe it already has?), you really don’t have any guarantee they’ll use Lightning to settle transactions.

In fact, there’s strongly incentivized NOT to use Lightning, because it’s more expensive than creating their own private messaging service (similar to what the Silvergate Exchange Network was between banks).

And that’s not even getting into the risk of the government shutting down these players altogether, which deals a SEVERE blow to Lightning.