It would be interesting to discuss once again your experiences with paying with lightning in 2024.
What changed since last year #209301 ?
104 sats \ 1 reply \ @dgy OP 15 Jun
Paying with my own LND node has become quite reliable. In 2024 I didn't have any payment failures anymore with amounts up to 300k.
In the field I had one payment delay with Phoenix on a Bitcoin event. I guess the channels got unbalanced when suddenly a lot of payments happened to one particular node.
I guess that with a higher Bitcoin price a lot of older channels are now big enough to handle these medium sized payments.
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102 sats \ 0 replies \ @617a7a 15 Jun
Made a 2 million sat payment successfully recently. Life is good 👍
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23 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatsMate 15 Jun
I haven't been able to make a lightning payment above 1.6M sats. Also, merchants in the Arizona area still haven't accepted Bitcoin Lightning yet.
I still use it and don't have issues, but overall being realistic it is about a 6/10. The tech is a 10/10, but the adoption and some of the nuances make it much less.
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5 sats \ 1 reply \ @john_doe 16 Jun
Excellent. With Zeus again today and Fedimint recently.
Incredible to have a Lightning node in our own mobile, just connect like this and pay to anyone on earth given his has an Internet connection.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @john_doe 16 Jun
And also with Mutiny recently but Zeus is faster and better, at least at the moment and in my opinion.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @030e0dca83 15 Jun
My couystill doesn't accept it. So I use it to accumulate couple sats and show newcomers how fast it is
On my side nothing changed
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