Core-lightning architecture:

- Main daemon: lightningd

- Sub-daemons: hsmd, gossipd, connectd, etc.

- Plugins: arbitrary scripts to customize the node.

This follows UNIX philosophy: "Do one thing and do it well".

End-user nodes usually check it 3-4 times a day, so the idea is to have node spinning up just once the user comes online to use the node.

Optimization was done on start-up, spinning up in 1s, connecting to peers in a couple and be ready in a short amount of time.

Always-on is an illusion.

Greenlight is an attempt to onboard new users to Lightning without giving them all the burden of it from the beginning.

The goal is to provide a first onboarding onto Bitcoin ecosystem running the node for the user until he is ready to graduate to self-hosting.

First on Main Stage at nostr:npub1dwah6u025f2yy9dgwlsndntlfy85vf0t2eze5rdg2mxg99k4mucqxz7c52 Lightning++ Edition: Christian Decker of nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n with "Running Lightning at Scale".

How much of the growth of LN will be driven by other layers (cashu, ark, etc.) and how much to assets built on it?

Tx volume of stablecoins is way higher than the one of Bitcoin, so it probably will be the second.

Is the current low fee environment a sign of little demand for Bitcoin transactions or it is a hint on the fact that Lightning is scaling it? - Walton

Lightning seems not to be the best way to incentives systems like Tor or similar, since it is very good when it works, but it is really bad when it does not. - Calle

"Is the world relying too much on Tor for privacy? Aboslutely!" - Alex

The important part is to build privacy feature as soon as possible, and don't leave them for the future. We may not be able to build them later. - Evan

Lightning has a tendency to centralization, just like the internet, due to efficiency gains.

However, anyone can join the network on the same level as the others, contrary to the internet, which is more gated.

"Is Lightning the end? It's a mean to an end" - Alex

Graduated wallet seems to be a good UX solution, helping people building their Bitcoin knowledge step-by-step.

"People just expect to receive money, they do not want to go through liquidity and other stuff." - Shinobi

"It's not the best idea to onboard someone to Bitcoin with self-custodial Lightning solutions, costs are high and UX is not good enough", according to Calle.

"Why aren't more people running their own Lightning nodes?"

Skill issues, fear of losing funds, receiving on LN is actually effortless even without a node so there seems to be no actual reason to do so.

Panel of the day on Main Stage at nostr:npub1dwah6u025f2yy9dgwlsndntlfy85vf0t2eze5rdg2mxg99k4mucqxz7c52 Lightning++ Edition: Walton ofnostr:npub1dwah6u025f2yy9dgwlsndntlfy85vf0t2eze5rdg2mxg99k4mucqxz7c52 moderates the panel "Scaling Lightning" with

nostr:npub19kv88vjm7tw6v9qksn2y6h4hdt6e79nh3zjcud36k9n3lmlwsleqwte2qd of nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5, nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg of Cashu, Alex Lewin of nostr:npub1uq70uqgas9pyhds2zt57kr9se8rg3s68ztphjnq82ts8rzeknmeql7u0c2 and Shinobi of nostr:npub1t8a7uumfmam38kal4xaakzyjccht4y5jxfs4cmlj0p768pxtwu8skh56yu.

Peter Todd announces he is ready to grant a 420'000 sats bounty to the first person which can build a plugin to completely delete LND logs from Lightning nodes!

Why is all these data kept by nodes?

Tor, for example, does not log anything by default. Some VPNs are running on RAM-only infrastructure.

There seems to be no technical reason to keep all these data.

One of the goals for Lightning is privacy through Onion routing.

Old logs, however, remain in the node. Node are usually run in cloud providers, making them huge log honeypots.

Following on Main Stage at nostr:npub1dwah6u025f2yy9dgwlsndntlfy85vf0t2eze5rdg2mxg99k4mucqxz7c52 Lightning++ Edition: Peter Todd of OpenTimeStamps with "Lightning's (other) Toxic Waste Problem".