This is an optimistic survey of the fits, fumbles, and false starts of non-custodial lightning over the last couple years. It enumerates a lot of the hard work that's left to do, and some of the solutions being experimented with.
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113 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury 1h
Very wise.
An unpleasant truth seems to be that not that many people want to use btc right now, for a definition of "use" that includes "regularly move UTXOs between people". The lack of this felt demand is why the whole inscriptions thing was even possible; and even that has largely petered out.
A whole host of developments will unfold once there is honest-to-god felt demand for them to exist, and not until then. It's impressive to me that lightning is as far as it is, given that constraint.
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201 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 7h
I really like the hosted channels model.
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61 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 7h
Are you optimistic about the future?
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114 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 7h
Yes. It's hard to use because it's doing something incredibly difficult which we're all going to keep working on because p2p digital cash is incredibly desirable. Lightning is a classic case of overestimating what we will accomplish in one year and underestimating what we will in ten years.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 3h
Good read
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @fishious 3h
Is this a new blog? I really like his thoughts and perspective in this post, so looking forward to more in the future.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 3h
appears to be
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nym 4h
Great article.
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