Lyn Alden har gått på djupet i Lightning och borde läsas i sin helhet innan man kritiserar blint.
https://www.lynalden.com/lightning-network/
"Using a broadcast network to buy coffee on your way to work each day is a terrible idea. A blockchain is meant to be an immutable public ledger. Do I really need to broadcast my coffee transactions to tens of thousands of nodes around the world, to be held in a distributed database for the foreseeable future?
What if I want to buy something more personally or politically sensitive than coffee? Shouldn’t I use peer-to-peer payment channels for that instead?
Imagine, for example, if every email that was sent on the internet had to be copied to everybody’s server and stored there, rather than just to the recipient. That would be grossly inefficient. And yet, that’s how various high-throughput blockchains try to work regarding money.
Instead, I can open a channel on top of the broadcast network, pay for things that only me and the merchant know about (subject to some privacy caveats that will be mentioned later), and then close the channel, with no immutable public record of those individual payments having occurred."
"The only way scaling makes sense, and avoids sacrificing decentralization, is to use a layered approach. Users can then pick their own solution, the layer(s) that make sense for them, depending on their specific needs.
Want to transfer a sizable amount of value permissionlessly, or hold coins for a long time in self-custodial cold storage with the highest-possible security and immutability? Use the Bitcoin network base layer.
Want to make a lot of instant, cheap, private, permissionless payments using a self-custodial solution, albeit with occasional on-chain transactions to open or close a channel? Use the Lightning network self-custodially. "
