Does it matter "how" Bitcoin's on-chain utility is used? The Lightning Network still requires on-chain transactions.
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Maybe. But I personally would never trade my Bitcoins for shitcoins just for "transacting".
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Who said you can't make on-chain transactions with Bitcoin anymore?
devs are already doing the fake cries of
the need to raise onchain fee's under the pretense that miners need it
the need to keep baseblock low to keep the fee competition
the need to only increase if LN needs require it
meaning they want to bloat blocks with LN contracts and only scale onchain when LN starts running into issues with broadcasts
just remember if it costs $20 to use bitcoin. but other non blockchains and other blockchains can do it for $0.10 or $0.000001 people wont consider it beneficial to spend $20, unless that $20 represents many months of many transactions aggrgated (for anything apart from LN r-org contracts)
devs also want LN to not be a daily close/open. but a monthly-6monthly close-reopen contract broadcast
meaning instead of putting pocket change in for planning just a week of coffee convenience they want people to put in a months salary/half a years salary to cover any possible payment needs and also have reserves for others to use for their routes going through
as for the crapcoins. yea there are thousands of crap coins people have and can create for free and have no purpose.
but if people are finding it costing $20 to re-org a LN contract (onchain broadcast) of can do the same for 10cents on litcoin.
people will start to give litecoin the usefulness factor and people would rather have 150ltc rather than 1btc, which after all would end up being ~ same $$$$$
and knowing they are not spending $20 per LN funds re-org
do you think merchants would like to receive btc. to know it would cost them $20 later to 'cash out' of LN.. or would they flip to something like ltc knowing it would later cost them $0.10 to 'cash out' of LN
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i would go into more details of LN's limitations both in tech, in ecomonics and in usefulness.. but ill save that for another post
but the summary is bitcoins blockchain should remain useful for normal transaction utility. and not just become a institutional vault that only exchanges and businesses handle