I'm not thrilled about everything centralizing around Spark. Yeah, we use it. I even tell people to use it because it's easy. But easy doesn't mean right. The last thing I want is every Bitcoin app depending on one provider. That's literally the problem we left.
Lightning isn't perfect. Never claimed it was. But it's the best we've got right now. Maybe something better comes along, a new L2 that actually works for normal people without centralization. Maybe it's just BOLT12? Maybe it's Ark? Until then, we work within the constraints we have.
Ultimately, this is an engineering problem. We can solve it. We have Claude. We have brilliant developers. Keep building. Keep trying new things.
Derek Ross
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