2145 sats \ 2 replies \ @snakedye 7 Mar 2023 \ on: Allen Farrington’s Hot Take on Custodial Lightning bitcoin
I'm tired of this false dichotomy that you either have to run a node or use a fully custodial wallet.
You can have custody without the hassle of running a full node.
This is clearly written by someone who is too deep in the hype.
Yes, it's okay to be excited but that doesn't mean the priorities should shift. It's not like there's a deadline so I don't see why we need to hurry and make everything custodial just so things work instead now of taking our time and build stronger foundations and alternatives to custodial systems.
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"being overly negative on this strikes me as a kind of core fallacy of appreciating open and decentralized systems: that it’s a spectrum, not a binary. how open and decentralized the foundation is represents the maximum openness and decentralisation of anything built on top, not the minimum!"
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What exactly about my comment was overly negative?
I'm not against trust, I use Pheonix. It's just the way this post is framed that I don't like.
Comments like this are sus
if you think about it, you actually can’t get this with “real” lightning either. it’s not instant (to set up) and you need to know people who presumably trust you to some small extent to get to the point of workable liquidity and stay there (perhaps under-discussed, but if channel partners “don’t trust you”, they will close or never open, and you can’t use lightning at all. WhO’s TrUsTlEsS nOw HuH?!?)
Nah bro, I know, you know, we know what lightning is. This is clearly someone trying to muddy the water. There's a lot of purity testing but this is just too goofy.
You ain't gonna make me believe asking my friend to pay something for me is real lightning or that there's no such thing as real lightning so that is equivalent to me paying using my own Pheonix app.
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