Mike on Nostr: Roger is right to say the base layer is not scalable to make it a payment system, he ...
Roger is right to say the base layer is not scalable to make it a payment system, he is also right that Lightning is a bit of a shit show.
The part he fails to acknowledge or even discuss is the cost of centralisation.
This, as you say, is the killer and makes BCH and BSV follies.
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