It just isn't the same, that's kind of my point. With gold you HAD to have a warehouse to issue currency. If you can run a BTC node, you can run a Lightning Node. A federal model (local-regional-national-global) of lightning nodes makes "state control" irrelevant. I admire the will, but it is better applied creating lightning channels to facilitate commerce that to try to somehow shove liquidity and velocity onto Layer 1.