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Very disingenuous comparison, what dictates how a chain resolvable tx is constructed relies on a centralized application, Lightning is simply an offchain transaction between equal peers.
No, just like Lightning, you literally craft a 2-of-2 txs with someone and co-sign it.
Prove it, drop the ASP from the design and then update your diagrams (again).
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The Ark server is your counterparty, just like anyone else you open a channel with.
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That would then make it the same as opening a channel to an LSP, only with worse security trade-offs for the client under the guise of efficiency that doesn't really exist.
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So you're backtracking?
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No I just painted you into a corner, that ASP's are just worse LSP's
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LSPs open channels.
ASPs split UTXOs.
I know it's hard to conceive that both might be useful and serve different purposes.
It's still all Bitcoin signed transactions.