Any L2 requires interactivity. Phones cannot maintain that interactivity.
It's either a dip shit fantasy, or blatant dishonesty and disdain for users, to suggest that they will be able to download a Lightning node from an app store and do anything other than incur fees just for tinkering with it.
Lightning is a tool for revenue, your phone can't earn revenue when you sleep because it too sleeps. A mobile node will only ever incur costs and terrible experiences for people trying Lightning.
Some people never learn. Matt's lucky he found an NGO to keep him employed while pounding this idiotic drum.
The mobile node fantasy is upstream of all the stupidity in Lightning, including Fake L2's that affinity scam as Lightning
(even the Fake L2's are now realizing they're not immune to the realities Lightning faces with mobile, and can't keep up with "rounds" https://x.com/nitesh_btc/status/2018068963255841015?s=20)
Phones are clients, not servers.
Lightning nodes are servers.
Any L2 requires interactivity. Phones cannot maintain that interactivity.
It's either a dip shit fantasy, or blatant dishonesty and disdain for users, to suggest that they will be able to download a Lightning node from an app store and do anything other than incur fees just for tinkering with it.
Lightning is a tool for revenue, your phone can't earn revenue when you sleep because it too sleeps. A mobile node will only ever incur costs and terrible experiences for people trying Lightning.
Mobile nodes are an attack on Lightning.