<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 wrote</title><author_name>utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 (npub1ut…r50e8)</author_name><author_url>https://yabu.me/npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://yabu.me</provider_url><html>It pains me to say it after 3 years of building on it but I think lightning is ngmi, at least for non custodial pleb payments.&#xA;&#xA;I think ark and liquid are fundamentally a more sound approach to L2 for end users.&#xA;&#xA;If it REQUIRES the end user to run infrastructure, even if that is just a phone, it&#39;s going to be too janky to actually scale.&#xA;&#xA;Not to mention that somehow lightning is already more ossified than L1...&#xA;&#xA;If we continue down the custodian route people will get rugged or KYC d &#xA;&#xA;I am ready for your hate, but this is my current take. Also would be happy to be proven wrong.&#xA;&#xA;Now back to sshing into my node and working on chantools to recover a force closed channel utxo that lnd didn&#39;t report. &#xA;&#xA;Totally easy for everyday users to solve if they run into this problem...</html></oembed>