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While true to a degree, do you always have to make such a pessemistic diagnosis? I think I was in the niaeve camp about what L2 all means. Probably operated at a loss. But nowadays, I claw some sats back, encourage others to keep going but not expect anything back other than some knowledge. I know you do the same but..
Think, all those plebs that do learn to set it up, compile software and run a node on their own hardware. Learning about actively managing it, about problems with liquidity, network discoverability and topography. Nobody becomes a Rene Pickhardt over night!
You've gotta live and learn, man.
One thing is to start learning from zero in 2019 and listen to others advice and another thing is that in 2025 are still public nodes with channels of 100k sats... for "routing" they say. And more than that they just open these shity channel between 2 big nodes, thinking that they will route and grab some fees. In fact they just bottleneck the network.
You can still learn more to run a LN node using PRIVATE channels, that do not affect so much the routing of others.
I concede. You do always bring up good points, jajaha
Something about money and fools are always parted. But still, without these kinds of inefficiencies, the network doesn't get tested. I'm sure there's more insiduous actors that purposefully devise ways to test networks. Plebs help us prepare for this.
The sad truth with "pleb nodes" that many people do not want to see it or talk about...
No matter how many talks and documentation will be written, people do not listen or read. They just want fast "passive income".