I think the best way to analyze this is to look at River Finance or other large known identity nodes and players. Despite the disclosure of a very hard to implement hack that poisons the reputation of the attacker while being a limited scope attack potential, these entities are still using Lightning. If you start seeing all of these big players close up shop, then maybe Lightning will be delayed a bit longer while this is worked out. Otherwise, cash app still sends and receives, stacker news still stacks.. seems like it’s working better than ever.
Yeah, this is what perplexes me: LN works, so I don't understand the reasoning leading to someone saying it has 'failed.' It works, it's relatively decentralized (compared to any other payment rail on Earth, at least), it's fast, and it's cheap. I'm just trying to understand the logic.
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