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As others have explained, Lightning simply can't scale to any significant number of users - it would take months for a larger US state to all have channels, ass
by simiones 4y ago
As others have explained, Lightning simply can't scale to any significant number of users - it would take months for a larger US state to all have channels, assuming all transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain for those months were new LN channels.
So either you use a trusted 3rd party that opens a single channel for a large amount of users (so, a fully centralized L3 over L2 LN over L1 BTC), or you can't actually use LN any more than you can use BTC.