One big reason is bc I had never heard of it, but thanks for surfacing this article, it looks interesting. Love to see creative takes on L2 and scaling that are even remotely plausible.
I agree. Lightning's base and instantaneous (mostly) transaction speed fixes a lot of layer one's issues but as OP stated it has a lot of limits and created its own set of issues (unable to find a route, ect).
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There was some discussion of this at Bitcoin Amsterdam (available on Youtube).
One of the last couple Bitcoin Review Podcast episodes has some depth on Lightning updates as well.
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