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Reality is what matters, and an idea is the start of the work that makes it real. Ideas are a dime a dozen, real things that are useful start as ideas then get years of work put into them

Those years of work are necessarily toilsome and ugly, because in the process of bringing something to reality you do the real work, you test your assumptions, you find out what the real issues actually are. You start with ideals, create something ugly and iterate. I value an idea with miles on it much, much more than the latest hotness that hasn’t gone through the rigors of the real world.

Well, after all these years, the newbie experience is still shit. Only yesterday I read how someone's lightning node was down for weeks and they didn't know about it. If an experienced IT guy can't get it right then what chance is there for regular folk? As a newbie I could just use Dash on any wallet and get instantly settled payments without installing anything else. Am not so much shilling, my point really is that Lightning is such a complex machine, it walks and talks like overkill.