funny part is that more people use CEX internal reserve swaps between services and stable coin by a magnitude of 1,000,000x compared to LN
the reason people avoid the bitcoin network first and then use CEX second and then use ln 7th (other bridge subnetworks exist with more liquidity 3-6) is due primarily due to high onchain fees.
yep people avoid the bitcoin network due to fee's not due to (lack of)successes of other flawed systems
funny part is instead of fixing flaws to make it better they just want to promote any hype they can find
especially when if you really observe you will find the initiation of LN was inspired by the hyperledger project(institutions gathering to prototype CBDC, asking bitcoin devs to develop and sandbox test CDBC methodology on subnetworks)
so ofcourse a FED is going to suck eggs about something they pushed for years prior. as its the basis of their own project
Yes yes, and the way to fix those flaws to make onchain fees lower is simply to hard fork to bigger blocks like BCash, right, right? Noted.
It has been debated here in the forum before. It will be challenging for users to run Lightning nodes altruistically forever. There will be opportunity costs because Bitcoin = a form of capital. There must be enough incentives for all that capital to be locked in those channels. If not, then the result is simple. They leave.
you really are not learning much are you. you are reading buzzwords and snippets and repeating them like a robot. but you are not actually learning or understanding..
with the latest ordinals junkweight bloat. and lengthy 'smart contracts' its proof core dont care about lean transactions to make efficient use of the blockspace. as is their method to miscount byte worth to fake the fee market again shows they promote making transaction 4x old costs instead of their promised discount(time you read some code and not troll blogs)
firstly take this premiss
imagine bitcoin as bank wire transfers. and imagine LN as paypal
if bank wire transfers cost $10 per payment but paypal offers(sometimes a false promise) payments at $0.02 but has some bugs.. yea sure you might get 1% of offboarding to paypal. but it still requires people to pay $10 just to get in and out of paypal. so those trapped in paypal dont want to leave it and so they get stuck promoting it hoping things will change.. but not admitting what need to change.. but you will then get 95% using other payment services(venmo, credit unions, virtual visa).. meaning even paypal doesnt win or get the attention it wants. and then you get the left overs trying to get banks wire transfers to do something about their charges and payment delays instead of using the charges and payment delays as the feature to promote their commercial other services
right now other subnetwork bridges and CEX systems have more liquidity than LN. and as someone else told you but i think you have yet to let it truly settle in your mind. LN's altruism is temporary.. so even the cheap fee on LN wont last
so LN with its bug, flaws, liquidity issues and bottlenecks all show a sign that when other subnetworks have garnered more liquidity. LN has lost the race.
no point waiting another 6 years to fix their bugs. they had their chance.. probably best to start again from scratch with a better or more useful subnetwork or get the core devs to once again concentrate on bitcoin and evolve bitcoin instead of trying to get people thrown off the network via various methods
oh and as for binance..
they have not opened up upto 60m channels so that each of their customers can withdraw and close channel to get their funds. binance has just opened large hub channels with other services so they can arbitrage locked reserves between services..
binance has not caused any significant progress to any LN stats, infact LN liquidity stats have decreased in the last fortnight
other subnetwork bridges has grown more in the last 2 years* than LN has ever grown in any measurement of any allotment of any 2 year period of its 6 years of life
*(many subnetworks are under 2 years old and more successful than LN)
even nigeria and el salvador tried LN. both decided to drop LN as a payment rail for their wallets and went for CEX services to control reserves instead.
observe the flaws, observe the avoidances, observe the lack of interest. then ... ask for something better
if you just want to go with the flow and hope things will go better if you just wait another 6 years. then you are not helping at all. core devs wanted the job of making bitcoin better so push them to do so. dont just kiss their ass and call them god and tell them they are doing a great job of making users use other systems
if after 6 years they cant fix LN then get them to put their time back into making bitcoin better or start afresh on a new project that can actually do the promises they proposed many years ago
one last observation you need to make
core devs were paid hundreds of millions of dollar to develop features for corporations. this was not altruist donations. this was corporate contracts of investments of future returns. and those corporations want return on investment. which yes includes getting middlemen fees(routing) back from subnetwork payments. so expect fee's to go up on subnetworks when its time businesses want their ROI