techfeudalist on Nostr: Liquid might be an underrated component of the bitcoin ecosystem. Perhaps developers ...

Liquid might be an underrated component of the bitcoin ecosystem. Perhaps developers should consider integrating Liquid into a variety of bitcoin processes.

For example, Lightning nodes have a requirement that they must be online to receive a payment. This makes it difficult to run a node on your mobile phone.

Perhaps using Liquid as a mailbox would work? Your Lightning payment is routed first to Liquid. Then, when your mobile node is back online, it checks your mailbox and pulls your payment into your Lightning wallet.

In addition to the benefit of offline payments, it might provide better Lightning privacy. My understanding is that when using Lightning, the payer knows the receiver’s node address. By routing Lightning payments first through Liquid’s confidential transactions, the privacy of the receiving Lightning node may be better protected.