Lightning has had lots of problems, but most of those are fixable through software or gets better and better with adoption (at least in theory).
The reason adoption has been so low is that with current hardware you cannot run a full node in a phone, so you either get a server to run a full node or you trade-off some control/security of your coins
There are still other theoretical problems, mostly things like denial-of-services, but adoption has been what has stagnated it.
The hardware/control tradeoff is a real PITA, we need a phone with like 50x more battery or efficient to be able to run lightning in a completely self-custodial manner
And there are still some people advocating for blocksize increase, which will make the problems of lightning even worse
Love it. Thanks so much to the author for making this. I wonder what's the easiest way how to sync these colors with Figma. Perhaps pro designers use some plugin for generating this kind of colors and exporting them to Tailwind?
Figma's approach to color is so frustrating and bonkers that I don't even bother. I've tried to make it work several times, and it's just so manual and tedious that I give up.
Apple considering move to carrier services? Makes sense from perspective of iPhone sales plateauing and their move to other sources of revenue. I wonder how far are we technologically from communication directly between phones and satellites. I have no idea tbh.
Starlink v2 satellites can do it today using T-Mobile's 1900MHz spectrum. Not sure if the service is live yet as they have only been launching v2 hardware for a few months.
My understanding is that the difference between the v2-Mini that are being launched now on Falcon 9, and the v2 that requires Starship, is the big antenna needed for cell phone.
Chris, this is such a wonderful idea. Congratz to releasing this. There are so many ways how to improve this, first thing that comes to my mind is to improve readability of the dialogue. I would to have this as a typical messaging app layout, where you see in separate bubbles who said what. Keep up the great work and good luck!
