💯 “Third, accepting and dealing with constraints is a sign of maturation in Lightning and in life.”

Gotta give it to @roy for being one of the few who understands what Lightning really is, and have the courage to take a principled stance as winds shift.

The shitcoin mindset cannot fathom the success of Bitcoin for simply being what it is and not what they project it to be. Every few years we must endure recycled projections of scale and functionally, coordinated in an "art of the deal" like approach for forks intended to paint Bitcoin as something malleable, bifurcated, and unstable.

Predators lurk where prey is abundant as proven by the most recent wave Fake Layer2 scams and Neobanks and NGO's sucking up Lightning developers to implement digital dollar rails. All predicated upon the narrative that Lightning is somehow inadequate, which couldn't be further from the truth.... unless you never understood Bitcoin in the first place.

I dunno, I didn't get much out of it. It gave me a "hope and change" impression without practical next steps.

It did get me thinking we need smaller units than sats though. Maybe that's a use case for e-cash.

Interesting