You’re right…nobody crafts TCP packets manually, and Lightning can absolutely offer similar abstraction. But here’s the twist: TCP/IP was built open and insecu

You’re right…nobody crafts TCP packets manually, and Lightning can absolutely offer similar abstraction. But here’s the twist: TCP/IP was built open and insecure by default, forcing us into decades-long battles (SSL, VPNs, Tor) to claw back privacy. Bitcoin risks repeating history if we treat transparency as a minor inconvenience rather than a systemic flaw. The point isn’t whether Lightning is easy (or hard) to use. It’s whether privacy should ever be optional at all. Privacy, like security, isn’t a feature you bolt on later; it must be foundational, invisible, and unavoidable from day one. Otherwise, we’re just building a prettier front-end on a fundamentally flawed architecture.