Sometimes I wonder if the Lightning Network is a bit like our planet Earth
Earth is far from an ideal, it’s a spinning ball of rock floating through space, with terrible weather patterns, earthquakes, volcanoes and lots of other downsides and despite all that, it works very well as a place for life
You could even take it further and think of the Sun as Bitcoin, the base source of energy and the planets as shitcoins, not suitable for supporting life
Maybe Lightning could have been designed differently, and there are for sure, bits about it that could be improved, but the question isn't whether it's perfect, but whether its tradeoff's allow it to work at scale in the real world
In that way, I hope people will come to appreciate Lightning less as a perfect payment system and more as an effective system that happens to have some rough edges
Sometimes I wonder if the Lightning Network is a bit like our planet Earth
Earth is far from an ideal, it’s a spinning ball of rock floating through space, with terrible weather patterns, earthquakes, volcanoes and lots of other downsides and despite all that, it works very well as a place for life
You could even take it further and think of the Sun as Bitcoin, the base source of energy and the planets as shitcoins, not suitable for supporting life
Maybe Lightning could have been designed differently, and there are for sure, bits about it that could be improved, but the question isn't whether it's perfect, but whether its tradeoff's allow it to work at scale in the real world
In that way, I hope people will come to appreciate Lightning less as a perfect payment system and more as an effective system that happens to have some rough edges