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Lightning is working through some narrative challenges right now. After holding the title of Bitcoin’s “only L2” for quite some time—it’s recently gotten some competition, not just for scaling Bitcoin, but for attention in the sector as well.
Excuse me, but what is this "competition", exactly? To my knowledge, every alternative involves some sort of foundation/consortium/bridge/side-chain etc. Read: point of failure begging to be exploited.
If someone can point out another L2 that is truly trustless then I can concede and call it "competition".