For one, people don't know what they don't know.

For two, just think about how everyone is scattering the money around in many areas: AI, Quantum, Real Estate, Gold (silver), Oil. They're literally cycling through every option. (The train will come back around.)

I'm not able to keep up with the chaos completely. But ultimately, they'll land on something that goes crazy up again and has a solid bottom (that's above the last). They're learning it right now. Nobody knows how long it will take for people to drop their egos and get real about something, ask questions (to the right people).

For three, I'm not going to bore you with numbers, but just know that there is something slightly greater than 0 thought computations going into a lightning technology. Here's why:

If knowledge in a mind grows like a tree, I could say "it stems" from the lack of freedom they don't even care to know they don't have.

It would take too much critical thought for them one time, to have their freedom forever. Any growth of branches on the tree would be healed for a lifetime, while the rest of their memories of history grow addicted to light.

You have to literally get them to download a satoshi wallet and click receive, and they may not even do that....

Here's the point, LND is a perfect tool for complete disruption, but there are so many more (Phoenix), and there is nothing that can stop this tool from being used for more and more Wumbo channels. So I'm going to break down the technology the best I see.

I have like quite a background in IT, and I selected LND over 7 years ago on a paid project. And I never get asked about the details... So I'm going to say my piece without waiting for the question.

Jumping back to point Two, the money. The money is always the last problem that has to be solved. Simply because it's too much risk for leaders to make the decision. Right now, it's IT people looking to their leadership for decisions on technologies.

Here's the short term and long term recommendation.

Short term: Buy the bitcoin

Long term: Buy more bitcoin and Test and consider brand new unbelievable technologies, and pray you pick the best one. Dump money on it praying for 4 years in the future, lol..

WRONG

Tell the government to put bitcoin on a lightning node, withdraw it to their own wallet, and repeat. then they have a ton of inbound liquidity for their taxing purposes, and they literally keep 80% in custody.

They'll eventually figure out that you can just back the bitcoin with a stack of cash, and have people transacting in dollars still.

On the web3 front, They definitely should not attempt to write smart contracts with consultants. That would be a terrible idea, but it certainly would be cheaper in the short term (because you can open-source the liquidity pools that you otherwise have to provide with your own node on lightning).

They should spin up a taxing webpage with QR codes. It would be stupid simple. Given a fully loaded node, I could literally make their ungodly taxing app in a day. The easiest integration into "crypto" would be lightning, but it would also be the most expensive because I have to provide inbound liquidity... Inbound liquidity is a limited resource in lightning land and depends on how much money you're wanting to make.. It's a balancing act, and a trusted technological mind is what is required in these situations. I would however defer to a financial specialist to tell me how much money can be predicted to be moved.

The government should buy this bitcoin. It would literally be the highest risk, highest return. (This is not financial advice, this is Technological advice.)

They probably won't for a time. Maybe a lifetime? (Cough, quantum). Who knows what is going to happen with all these tweets. But who knows when they'll stop being thirsty for blood money. It's literally the most evidential Psychic Vampirism. There's a book on it, U.S. Army Research..

And then there's always IPv6 technologies like phones and starlink, that simply obsolesce anything that is not connected to the ever growing network of quick wins.

Does anybody know if there's still a 10,000,000 sat requirement to connect to Strike's public node?

I believe we've run out of technologies to ponder which behaves the most sanely...

I think it's time to bring in the big cajones.

The reason that everyone is flocking to all these other things is because they're familiar in times of unfamiliarity..., but what about 5 years ago when it was easy to find a job in Ethereum development. I don't recommend that technology, simply out of technological constraints. I don't recommend using any of these other technologies until they are properly stress tested.

I've tested every technology I can get through my keyboard.

I'm telling everyone, you can find inbound liquidity. It's cheap, and that's my whole point.

Nothing good in history was free, but for the first time, we have Satoshi Wallet...

And what I'm saying is companies don't understand that inbound liquidity is a scarcity on the bitcoin network, and they can provide 100% of it through 20% down, after a couple weeks to a month of work.
Mantaned by a Lightning Engineer, and there's only like 20 of those at Lightning Labs, in the world.

Right now, there's not much but SN doing much transacting, so Lightning tech is not a profitable gig, especially since investors with this kind of money aren't like "OMG I LOVE BTC!!" They love seeing all their money back AND MORE in 6 months. Lately, it looks like mega wallet holder's attention spans have shrunk down to minutes.

Who has the knowledge that cannot be obtained with AI? (New technologies that have not been fully hype invested in yet, with everything they've got)

Who has the money? Whoever is anonymously trading on the market. Our network is a perfect fit for them.

What am I proposing? Nothing right now, because nobody is serious and willing to put their money where their mouth is. For convenience, so few have a sat in self-custody. And paper bitcoin is becoming mainstream.

They should stack the liquidity instead of stacking paper bitcoin. Whoever has the most Staked into this system will be the one with the power, with enough ability to see just as much as anyone can see where the money is going, but they'll have a more complete map, the more liquidity they provide... They'll even be able to do what Strike's already doing, probably not making much money because they know the term "rehypothecation" and have the self-control to know it's not the right thing to do with other people's money...

But people can contact me through my profile if there's any real questions. There are so many fish in the sea, and so few of them can be entertained long enough to read something that's good for them and brings them peace to know, someone is working on it...