Big blockers exactly forsaw the (intended?) LN usecase at scale as bank to bank network.
That's why they criticised Blockstream and its bank investors for stalling P2P Bitcoin adoption.
Are we slowly finding out that Core has been compromised for far longer than anticipated by many here?
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I don't know. I have been considering that question for almost 10 years.
I will say this, I have no problem with lightning being a "bank to bank" network. There is no perfect way to solve scaling without trade-offs. And no one forces me to use lightning. I choose to in certain circumstances. I ran one of the first 200 lightning nodes on the network, but I don't run one anymore.
One thing that worries me about core at the moment is that we maybe headed towards people making the same type of decision about running full nodes.
At which point Ethereum, Solana, they're probably better networks anyway.
But I'm also not convinced that's where we're going yet. It's interesting times.
To be honest, I'm too tired to think about it anymore.