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So instead of advocating for improving Lightning or building better L2s because of bad experiences, you just give up on self-custody all together for payments?
Talk about throwing out the baby with the bathwater...
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Not at all. Trust minimized self-custody will always be the north star. I hope things like Hedgehog can enhance LN. If we get CTV in the next couple years then that opens a lot of interesting doors. Even if not, self-custody LN will continue to improve.
Ecash is just a net improvement for the custodial experience. There is a market for that, whether it is ideal or not, and I'm glad that low hanging fruit is being experimented with.
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Seth I like you and you have some good points in your post, but cmon.
Obtaining and managing a LN channel is not for everyone (I'd argue not for most people). Base chain fees won't allow for "pocket money" channels. Getting a channel presumes a decent amount of bitcoin to deploy in the first place.
Phoenix isnt available to everyone on their app store (wink). Zeus is cool but I had an unfortunate experience my first go around with them and regular people aren't gonna deal with force closes.