I don't put Ark in the same category as Spark.

I've been running BTCPAY Server/LND for about 3 years now on Oracle Cloud using the free-forever offering. Absolutely, no hosting charges in this time frame. This blog post provides a guide on how to do the same.

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I get your point.

WoW! Will check that out.

From the standpoint that it's much worse and scammier? They've overstepped on marketing worse than anyone

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Fake L2 scams like Ark, Spark, Citrea, Drivechains, and others are Shitcoins 2.0 \ stacker news ~bitcoin

There's a new wave of Lightning FUD hitting the wires, but that's noise. What no one else is talking about is the signal. Reality is that Lightning...

I get into my solution, Lightning.Pub, a bit on the full interview It's a recognition that casual users are going to end up trusting somebody, so we need to make the tools that allow that to be distributed to the local extreme of the family/small-biz View quoted note →

This is the right approach by putting trust where it should always have been: family, friends, local business where you actually know them. Trusting faceless corporations and institutions is an abomination that, along with fiat, created the problems we are trying to fix.