I would never admit it to a shitcoiner, but Lightning is a nightmare UX without relying on a custodial service. Despite giving myself >10x the liquidity of the payment size in direct channels with a common peer on two of my own wallets, I cannot manage to pay myself more than 100k sats reliably.
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It is a shitshow. Lets not pretend that it isn’t and talk openly.
Nice what we can do with custodial lightning services but that is not perfect or not even great at all.
No one fixed the liquidity problem of channels and no one has any idea how to fix that.
Lightning devs are working for 5 years now and I have the same problem I had 5 years ago -> no inbound liquidity.
I would love to see more people focused on that non-custodial lightning adoption problem and I push for that too… but lets not forget:
‚21 million limit’ is much much more important than ‚not your keys not your coins‘!
People tend to neglect that as they try to change people to focus on their privacy and due to the meme power of ‚not your keys not your coins‘.
They are one and the same. If you don't hold your own keys you can be given paper bitcoin that exceed the 21m limit