I know the argument but I disagree. Unless someone invented a way to made On-chain payments scale without the centralizing tradeoffs, Bitcoin had no other way to make it to visa-level TX activity. Now we've surpassed that, and as a lightning node runner it's given me an income, too. I know it took some time to get here but lightning is great now. Not quite perfect, but millions use it every day around the world and it's now proven tech.

Have you checked the merchant stats? I mean, I know you have not because your claims are verifiable bullshit. LN is a nice extension to Bitcoin, but we shouldn't have sacrificed everything to partially make it happen 10 years after it got invented.

Probably I talk fantasy but I the whole calculation/computing that Bitcoin makes is meaningless. Don't get me wrong - it's still a good value storage but instead of computing bytes to be in a certain shape, you could compute something more meaningful like: - Reasoning power, token computation. - Genome computation to make early illness detection. - New meds discovery via simulation computing. - Other weird ideas to make our life easier.

"Unless someone invented a way to made On-chain payments scale without the centralizing tradeoffs, Bitcoin had no other way to make it to visa-level TX activity." isn't this exactly what BCH did? the more I read the more I'm convinced the community chose the worse bitcoin version