Nostr keeps talking about mass adoption while chaining itself to Lightning's broken user experience. A payment system that demands channel management, inbound liquidity, constant uptime, and still randomly fails to route isn't innovation—it's engineering arrogance disguised as progress.
The industry's answer wasn't to fix Lightning. It was to surrender. Custodial wallets became the default because self-custody is simply too painful for ordinary users. Once your "decentralized" economy depends on custodians, exchanges, and companies holding everyone's funds, you've already abandoned the principles you claim to defend.
Then comes the inevitable KYC trap. The more users rely on regulated custodians, the more identity checks, surveillance, and compliance become unavoidable. Asking people to hand over passports and biometric data just to send a few cents in tips is an insult to the very idea of censorship-resistant money.
Bitcoin Cash doesn't need this house of cards. Transactions happen directly on-chain with negligible fees, no payment channels, no inbound liquidity, no routing roulette, and no dependence on custodians. If Nostr genuinely wants millions of users instead of a tiny club of Lightning enthusiasts, it needs a payment system built for people—not one that expects people to become payment network engineers.
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