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billions | 4 years ago

Can you expand on "Lightning seems like a joke compared to the types of efforts happening on Ethereum" ? I was just in El Salvador and Lightning was a faster and more convenient experience than credit cards...

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magicjosh|4 years ago

Happy to hear more about your experience!

To answer your question, what I've read about Lightning it sounded convoluted. The need to have a watcher keeping a channel open, invoices, just seems overly complex. I have tried receiving sats from online Lightning faucets and that part was impressive.

Ethereum's L1 growth and improvements seem more logical to me.

Is there a good place to go to track the adoption of Lightning?

mw888|4 years ago

Kind of strange to call Lightning convoluted and then cite Ethereum as a foil. Lightning is much simpler than what Ethereum is trying to do, and evidently so when you compare progress on each so far.

aspenmayer|4 years ago

Lightning was recently added to Cash App, for one big corp fiat onramp/offramp example.