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

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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