Spark still has certain issues around it the most obvious one being privacy. I'm hoping that will improve over time. It will always have different trade-offs to Monero because of it's architecture, but the trust assumptions seem an improvement over fully custodial Lightning without sacrificing UX
Technically Spark is a statechain, not Lightning, but that's abstracted away so that it feels indistinguishable. Been playing around with it and interacting with Lightning through Spark is actually pretty damn smooth so far ngl
SaberhagenTheNameless / Saberhagen The Nameless
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