Better in that it's more practical for streaming money, you could batch settle to self-custodial LN every X sats
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Fiat has been more practical to use than sats for most of the last decade, would you call fiat better?
My definition of better includes the level of risk involved. Using someone else's ecash mint entails more risk than running a LN node.
But ecash is more practical than lightning, for sure.
For such small amounts it doesn't matter, and ecash has better privacy
I agree that.
v4v content creators are still better off with lightning, since they are not dealing with small amounts. My favorite podcast reads boost messages every episode and they'll have a handful that are over 100k.
Cool, yeah maybe not for those boosts, I mean more for streaming per second kind of thing