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It is very unlikely that a new genius developer, would know how to navigate the political landscape.
They would probably come in and redo everything from scratch -- everyone would tell them to get lost, and they would. This is what happened to Vitalik for example https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=431513.0 even though he was a longtime writer for Bitcoin Magazine.
I am not a believer in Vitalik's idea -- but no one serious tried to help him implement it on Bitcoin. So it is with many Bitcoin ideas.
Building on Bitcoin, or even getting new Bitcoin merchant adoption, has fallen out of favor.
You will get support if you "build on lightning" but that is frankly part of the problem -- it reduces creativity by funneling people all into one narrow sub-field of Bitcoin.
It isn't True Creativity unless your invention will put dozens of other people out of a job.
My in-laws built one of these in the mountains of New Mexico north of Tijeras. Not quite this extreme - they stopped short of the indoor plants and bottle walls, but 3 of 4 exterior walls were rammed earth in tires, giant south-facing windows to maximize solar gain in the winter, off-grid solar and a metal roof to catch water. It looked really nice (walls were finished with stucco) and was in a beautiful spot on a south facing mountain slope. They eventually sold it for a live aboard boat, but it was an incredible place for the couple decades they were there.
I would love to live in an earthship. I will say, builders/owners should develop an instruction manual for all of the off-grid systems. They're all a bit unique and visitors will be totally unfamiliar with their operation and peculiarities.
I cut the cord.
First I used LNC besides payments failing from time to time it worked great until LNC went down for me for some unknown reason
Then I switched to NWC using alby hub. And it works for the most part but I always get 5 to 10 failed payments it seems like per day or every few days
The auto withdrawal feature worked like a charm. Works great. As someone who doesn’t get a ton of lightning payments it’s often cool to see tiny payments be made to my node.
On one hand I see Darth’s argument but I side with you. What’s the point of LN if a node can’t consistently handle 1 sat payments a few thousand times a day. The more we use it the better we can improve the protocol to meet the needs of the users.