waxwing on Nostr: This is a really important point to make. The question is whether the slightly shaky ...
This is a really important point to make.
The question is whether the slightly shaky foundation of lightning, as current- LN penalty- will support enough further refinement that it can be used into the future. This shakiness has made the engineering workload needed to reach safe usability, huge. And there are still big holes in it from the point of view of robustness.
But Calle is dead right that LN sets the bar way higher in decentralization, and we should only really be looking for alternatives that have that same property.
The question is whether the slightly shaky foundation of lightning, as current- LN penalty- will support enough further refinement that it can be used into the future. This shakiness has made the engineering workload needed to reach safe usability, huge. And there are still big holes in it from the point of view of robustness.
But Calle is dead right that LN sets the bar way higher in decentralization, and we should only really be looking for alternatives that have that same property.
quoting nevent1q…uaezUnderstand this: Lightning is the only DECENTRALIZED scaling solution on the table.
Those saying Lightning is dead all push for centralized scaling. The fact is, Lightning will never cease to exist. You can't turn it off. We're a bunch of Alice's and Bob's who won't stop.