Today we can run a lightening node on a device with ~5GB of storage (either with pruned node or connected to, for example, full bitcoin node on umbrel). The main issue with LN today is that such devices should always be online monitoring the channels (in case a user doesn’t want to rely on watch towers). However, our mobile phones today are almost always online and has more than 5GB of storage. Why such approach of running LN is not being widely adopted today? Instead the scaling debate is somehow shifting to experimenting on a foundational main layer. With or without soft fork, it seems unnecessary considering LN is working today and can scale well. What am I missing/not seeing? Any comment is appreciated to help me identify gaps in my thinking.
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raudaviciusm / Mindaugas
npub1a9…ync7f
2024-03-24 09:11:33
Author Public Key
npub1a9nsvhasx02qjkpj02z43t9ht7af2dlfxzwpa8a62mhjcknn4kdq8ync7fPublished at
2024-03-24 09:11:33Event JSON
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