The article isn't promoting wBTC that much, but the overall idea of it seems to be that Lightning Network is not good enough to become mainstream.
The other reason is surely your title, especially this part:
the rise of wBTC
A couple of other sentences that talk about wBTC (an altcoin):
...it’s been found that there are currently more WBTC locked in the Ethereum network compared to BTC in the Lightning Network.
...that a single transaction on the Ethereum network that day minted one thousand WBTC tokens. This transaction alone represented more value in US dollars compared to the entire Lightning Network.
Their report went on to state that there are now 2,300 BTC locked in WBTC tokens, compared to 927 BTC that’s locked on the Lightning Network.
SourceThe article seems to be saying that wBTC is the better choice because LN is still not where it is supposed to be. And it goes on to list what LN needs to do to improve. Based on this I would have to agree with the mods for moving it to the Altcoin sub-board.
Can you give me the link of this topic which was moved to altcoins ?
You can see the link in the
2nd post, posted by mk4.