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This can also happen to exchanges with closed source software we have no ways to inspect or any hope to fix. So to address your points:
1- Bugs in software will always exist, and lightning is a complex beast.
2- Part of the motivation here is to teach folks that they can prove/verify a lightning payment. Maybe I should add a better "about" section explaining that.
3- A regular user who doesn't run a node has no way of checking. Some wallets do give out pre-image, but there's hardly any public resource allowing users to verify.
I can't go around fixing every single wallet my trade peers use, so a better use of my time was to put this together and have them use to verify my claim and also forward the same claim to their wallet/exchange support.
Any custodial wallet can have a glitch and fail to account for. I recall some peers having issues with WoS. But these days it's mostly apps that do atomic swaps like the bull wallet that I've seen failures with. They all get sorted out in the end, but having a third-party website to use as an independent arbiter is always nice. Just handing out an hex string as "proof" for the recipient is often times not enough for non technical users.
I think you're approaching the concept from the wrong angle. The way I see it's not about giving it access to your coins, but rather empowering it to go and pay for stuff, and allow it to get paid.
Yeah, the dude definitely has balls. But why did he not neutralize the threat? Was he not familiar with fire arms?
Have not considered it. This was a tool I made for my own analysis. But it indeed seems like an interesting weekend project.
Of course the enforcement power of the US Gov is greater than that of any individual company. But what I mean is that US law is not the world law and even that power has its limits. For instance I don't see how the US can go out and effectively enforce these rules in Russia or China. Of course these jurisdictions might have their own rules regarding money transmission, but they'd be not the same.
You said "the law" and then proceeded to talk about each state, presumably referring to US states. That just reminded me of the pirate bay's response to legal threats from DreamWorks back in the day. Here's a refresh on that:
As you may or may not be aware, Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country in northern Europe. Unless you figured it out by now, US law does not apply here. For your information, no Swedish law is being violated. Please be assured that any further contact with us, regardless of medium, will result in a) a suit being filed for harassment b) a formal complaint lodged with the bar of your legal counsel, for sending frivolous legal threats. It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are ……. morons, and that you should please go sodomize yourself with retractable batons. Please also note that your e-mail and letter will be published in full on https://www.thepiratebay.org. Go
Saying that "92% of people are using it incorrectly" sounds too snob and pretentious.
Sure, there are more sophisticated ways in which people are not aware it can be used. But there's no "correct" way of using it. It depends on context.
Marginal improvement on miner efficiency should be a priority to whoever cares about mining decentralization.
Thanks for the feedback, I'll make sure I add it. But as someone that uses P2P trading quite a bit, let me assure you the use case is pretty real. It's not the first time I've ran into this issue with trading partners and it's pretty annoying to have to explain things. I'm scratching my own itch here.
Also I don't intend to cast shade to any wallet out there, like I said lightning is hard, lots of moving parts.
I'm actually surprised I couldn't find something like this out there. Most decent wallets do show a preimage as a payment proof. But then users have nowhere to go to easily and quickly perform a cross check as they'd do with an on-chain transaction.