mleku on Nostr: running stuff is usually the only way to find out what its limits are and what its ...

running stuff is usually the only way to find out what its limits are and what its flaws are and creates the opportunity to test out variants and extensions that may open up avenues that were thought impossible to achieve

lightning TLV onions were probably thought of as "yet another going to fail source routing protocol" and yet here we are, it works pretty damn good, most of the time, now that the software is maturing

someone may yet crack teh problem of making a routing protocol that is path based yet, certainly Ark seems to be going in that direction, and who knows maybe Ark and LN will have bastard children yet that solve issues with both by the hybrid