muted.

There is a limit to idiocy.

By giving them more work, more costs, more employee training required, more time wasted, lower margins.

You sure do have always smart ideas...

Bitcoin has $2 trillion as a store of value. That use case has a lot of adoption.

It's the lightning, instant payment part that's a failure. And inferior to fiat UX.

Lightning has virtually zero adoption, outside of our niche bubble.

That alone screams failure.

In what capacity?

Okay, the goalpost has moved.

We went from

the whole cypher tank is about spark

to

the winner is about spark

cool. we're making progress.

All other pitches have nothing to do with Spark. :)

Plus, Spark is net positive for the ecosystem. The more competition for those broken L2s the better for everyone.

I watched all the pitches.

Only 1 pitch (Blitz) had anything to do with Spark.

Which other projects have you observed being pitched (built on Spark)? What % do they represent of all the pitches?

When will we be ready to admit that Lightning was a colossal UX failure?

• Channel management
• Liquidity management
• Online to receive
• Have to spend money even before being able to receive
• Have to rebalance like a dork
• Centralisation incentives for LSP

and the list goes on and on

Mainstream UX is set and forget.

Nothing about LN is about forgetting.

Good luck onboarding the Global South to this hot mess

They have nothing to do with Spark...

Only Blitz.

has it been open sourced?

justin, non-custodial UX is not for the masses today. Don't be delusional.

Ever heard of a LNURL Pay?

Lightning has incredibly strong centralising tendencies. Big well-connected hubs have massive advantages in many ways. Over time you will see a few very big Lightning nodes dominate.

What's the point of this compared to a simple LN invoice?

Sounds like Ark's UX will be worse than Spark, unfortunately.

Reading Austrian Economics by chance.

I don't expect 99% of the population to have to study Economics for bitcoin to click...

Nobody had to study Internet protocols to use the web.

China has been preparing for war, by buying gold. As simple as that.

Seems wildly overvalued honestly.

Nope. I want bitcoin to be so good that it won't need to be taught.

Bitcoin will only be successful if it won't require education.

Good point on marketing...

The moment you have multiple operators, I would say we're very close to self-custodial. You only need 1 single honest actor out of 500 in the federation.

I believe wallets don't have that yet as it seems like it's a CLI only operation at the moment. https://docs.spark.money/wallets/unilateral-exit#unilateral-exit