In a way that already happens. The entire economy already functions on a network that is independent from the LN.
Sure it sucks that I cannot use lightning in my local grocery store but I can still get value from it by using with whoever is on the network.
And the entire economy is surveilled and tracked. Bitcoin was aiming for peer-to-peer and if we can’t use it in that way, instead having to rely on intermediaries to send payments then we’re back at square one
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