Shinobi Talking about Why Lightning Sucks and Why Nobody Should Use it - LNJ011

Lightning Junkies

This is Episode Eleven of the Lightning Junkies podcast. In this episode, we have Shinobi talking about why Lightning sucks and why nobody should use it. This is a trolly title went to exaggerate what I expected Shinobi to talk about. He ends up having a very balanced opinion on Lightning, even possibly seeing it as the future of Lightning. This is 1 of 2 episode series based on being skeptical of Lightning and exploring arguments against it. Stay tuned for next week when we have 2 of 2 of this series.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Shinobi's Background
• Reasons for getting into Bitcoin
• Challenges of Lightning
• Transaction Fees Going Up
• Exchanges Issue/Liquidity Issue
• Arguments Against Lightning
• Future of Lightning
• Shitcoins/Relevant Features
• Channel Constructs
• Scaling Bitcoin with L2
• Smaller Blocksize
• Blocks Transmitted over Radio
• Bigger Blocks
• Bitcoin vs Shitcoin Memes
• Lightning Privacy
• Spend or HODL?
• Shilling or Naw?
• Tipping Point for Adoption
• L2 Cold Storage
• Favorite Apps
• Lightning Darknet Markets

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