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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 a

• magicjosh 5y 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?
  • aspenmayer 5y ago
    Lightning was recently added to Cash App, for one big corp fiat onramp/offramp example.
    • magicjosh 5y ago
      2022 is off to an interesting start! "Block’s Cash App adopts Lightning Network for free bitcoin payments" https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/18/blocks-cash-app-adopts-lightning-network-for-free-bitcoin-payments/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/18/blocks-cash-app-adopts-lig...
  • mw888 5y 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.