financially motivated noncompliant nodes should appear
These exist already and at this moment LN is what makes a private Bitcoin setup feasible. At least on an individual scale. There is more than enough liquidity outside of the walled garden exchanges to spend a couple M private sats at once from a single-use channel.
Its no use if you need to wash those 2000 whole coins you just stole of course. But that's good. It means that LN in its current form protects the vulnerable individual more than any attackers. Less reason to attack it because of that.
These exist already and at this moment LN is what makes a private Bitcoin setup feasible. At least on an individual scale. There is more than enough liquidity outside of the walled garden exchanges to spend a couple M private sats at once from a single-use channel.
Its no use if you need to wash those 2000 whole coins you just stole of course. But that's good. It means that LN in its current form protects the vulnerable individual more than any attackers. Less reason to attack it because of that.