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atori 1 year ago
It works now - today - for the people that need it.
Lightning also does not scale for global payments, yet people defend it. This argument makes zero sense. When talking about payments (not SoV), if something works well today, why do you care it does not scale infinitely?
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BTC_P2P 1 year ago
Custodial LN is so easy and works perfectly. Who cares if there is trust as a trade off for fast / instant / near-free txs when 99.95% of an individuals wealth is protected behind impenetrable encryption that can’t be rugged.
Interesting opinion, you could be right actually. Although i still say the need to be interoperable with real lightning is a de facto practical check on custodians’ integrity, to some degree at least. If the ONLY available options were custodial lightning, you’d be correct for sure
Ok, then why are you so worried that Monero doesn't scale? What you're saying is also true. It still doesn't change the fact that custodians don't scale Bitcoin. It scales IOUs.
Funny, that this is exactly what bcashers said back in the day of the great schism and were ousted for it. They framed it a little different, but I see we are now back at square one. This time Bitcoiners defending centralisation and custodianship.