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Agree. And I personally think, that their market share is mainly because the fact, that LND is first/only choice in most of the "prepared solutions" like Umbrel, myNode, RaspiBlitz, Embassy, Citadel etc for plebs.
Big players are more willing to use other solutions.
These are such good and thoughtful replies, thanks for taking the time.
Generically, I think our X is money<>information exchange. If we boil X longer, I think it's value exchange and imo community is value exchange, a uniquely personal and attentive form of it. (imho community is the best form of value exchange.)
This reminds me of one of the most thought-provoking things I read last year, where punk6529 gave thoughts on how transacting is foundational to all other rights. It made me think about community in terms of what is transacted, and in particular, how honest discussion is actually a Good Thing for the world, not in a hazy general way, but very concretely. Making it possible for it to emerge is a really substantial contribution.
I have way more to say but I have to do work. SN this last week has been terrible for my productivity. I'm working on social community software and design, so I've been telling myself my SN time is 'research', but it's getting pretty tenuous sometimes ;)
Daryl Davis converted over 300 KKK members by talking g to them. Ghandi also comes to mind. There was also Jesus....
People have absolutely changed the world by being kind, forgiving, and talking logically.
Did anyone change your mind by being dogmatic and unforgiving? Because it seems to me that it's that exact behavior that's had an opposite effect on you.
Hm that’s an interesting question and kind of hard to speculate on. Before LDK came along I didn’t think an enterprise-first style implementation would exist and now we have one of those with phantom nodes and other cool scale based features.
I think pretty highly of the existing Lightning devs out there. If they won’t add a particular feature I suspect there would probably be a good reason for not doing it.
In the near term it does feel like there is just a ton to be done and too few to do it all. But perhaps one day lightning will ossify and we’ll look be able to look back and say oh hey it’s done.
I don’t see a day like that coming anytime soon though.
One area Lightning devs aren’t working on is automated channel management and rebalancing and I do suspect that area will see some pretty awesome innovation over time. If that progress well, and I suspect it will, we’ll eventually have one button lightning node deployments that just do everything for you automatically.
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