0 sats \ 3 replies \ @SqNr65 7 Jan \ parent \ on: Rethinking Lightning bitcoin
I'm really glad it helped you understand the issues with lightning, I think it's incredibly important for us non-technical noobs to understand the limitations in the tech as much as we can.
But did it help you understand how to address these shortcomings in any practical way? Or did it outline how these issues might be mitigated in the future?
It did a good job (arguably) of outlining problems. Do you think it did a good job of outlining solutions?
Did it help you understand what covenants are, how they work, or how they can help solve any of these issues?
The first step in a solution is to understand the problem. :)
And...I have faith that there will be technical solutions. When the internet was in its infancy, no one envisioned Netflix, or Amazon for that matter, but solutions were envisioned to solve those hurdles.
Creativity found a way...and so it will be with L2 and L3..
"How many times has a man thrown up his hands at a time, when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success."
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Sure man, glad you understand the problems better now.
Faith means trust, don't verify. Not a fan. I prefer don't trust, verify.
I also think there will be solutions, but this article brought me no closer to understanding what those solutions might be.
Nice quote and all, but you didn't really answer any of my questions at all, didn't even try to.
Care to venture a response? Not tryna be a dick here. I'm really just curious, I wanna know if I missed something. There are a bunch of questions there, would love to get an answer for at least 1 of them
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Sure man, glad you understand the problems better now.Faith means trust, don't verify. Not a fan. I prefer don't trust, verify.I also think there will be solutions, but this article brought me no closer to understanding what those solutions might be.Nice quote and all, but you didn't really answer any of my questions at all, didn't even try to.Care to venture a response? Not tryna be a dick here. I'm really just curious, I wanna know if I missed something. There are a bunch of questions there, would love to get an answer for at least 1 of them
AFAIU, the way covenants solves this issue is by making the ownership of each UTXO shared by more than 1 party without hitting the chain. Which, for the layman, means that in the future all channels will be opened to multiple parties (instead of just one), which will save in fees. And given that covenants will allow, this way, for LN to scale to the whole planet (because, you know, LN as it is today can't scale to the whole planet as it requires at least 1 UTXO per person), then we will have lower on-chain fees. And with lower on-chain fees, we don't have all the issues that OP explained in the 1st 10 paragraphs of his rant.
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