Way back in 2018 I started my life in the space as a staunch Monero maxi
I started with running my own LND node and trying various wallets, but nothing felt quite good enough.
Over the next few years I went hard down the rabbit hole, running multiple @lightning and @Core_LN nodes, using @ZeusLN heavily
Ultimately, even I, a technical user with a sysadmin background and expertise, gave up on this idea of self-hosted Lightning nodes on servers as impractical and way too much of a PITA to be worth the effort
Then, as a tech enthusiast at heart, I was always on the hunt for what could solve these issues. When Burak revealed the idea of the Ark network, a whole new world seemed possible
When I started with @cakewallet in 2024, they were just about to release a Lightning beta into the world leveraging Greenlight, Blockstreams "node in the cloud" approach to Lightning. While the concept seemed sound and theoretically removed much of the pain points of Lightning, the reality of this approach to Lightning was deeply flawed. In the first week I killed the Lightning approach entirely at Cake
After hundreds of hours reading, researching, and having conversations, it became clear to me that while Ark as a concept was fascinating, broadly extensible, and a bit more cypherpunk in origins, the compromises it made today in user experience didn't make up for what it got the end user. Cake needed something to solve Lightning payments in a way that limited dev requirements and felt seamless to users, and Spark offered exactly that.
better say: from LN hater to LN scammer...
You have been warned.
It's time you came back to Lightning, anon ⚡️It's time you came back to Lightning, anon ⚡️
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