Unilateral chain exit is subject to the constraints of the chain itself, not the L2. The gripes about Lightning are because of this, not Lightning itself, beefing with Lightning is beefing with how the chain works underneath it. Since supply being the only real scaling limitation if we're talking about billions of users, L2's cannot scale sovereignty until the chain does. You can't unilateral exit millisats if the chain does not recognize millisats for example. No L2 can solve this.

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I agree with this. But we won't have this problem until we get close to exhausting the mining-subsidy supply around the middle of this century, because one sat cannot reach one dollar (today's money) until the hashpower and subsidy balance to around one dollar per sat. We are far from that possibility today because we are no only constrained by supply-inflation and market forces, but also by mining equipment bottlenecks and energy availability. Once the value of a sat is on course to cause a transaction to be cost-prohibitive, let's say because a single-sat would potentially be worth an average middle-class household's month or year's pay, and the minimum transaction cost were to be clamped to one sat, then it may be worthwhile to further fractionalize the sat onchain, but until then, we are arguing the sexes of angels.