if you don't like watchtowers, put an LN node on a raspberry pi. It's easy. Problem solved
but wait. wasnt the whole point of LN because blockchains are too big for home users.
but wait. wasnt the whole point of LN to just use smart phone to buy coffee in starbucks
now things are circling back to the whole 'home users need to be paid to be their own full node' greedy cries
the mindset these days are blockchains are for "big blockers"
we have had 'banking' business models for decades. crypto/blockchains meant to be taking us away from middlemen not re-introducing them
and you can use bitcoin. but nobody said it would be free. pay the cost or use something cheap (like LN).
bitcoin is only getting more expensive. not due to technology. but due to human(dev) implemented limits under the guise of economic game theory.
LN cheap?
having a channel direct with a merchant(1hop) ~cheap. but routing =multiple fees. then add on watchtowers fee. then add on factories fee.
also people dont do 20tx a day normally. they do 1-2tx a day(even popular payment methods like visa show this). so if the guise of economic game theory is pushing onchain fee's up to match the (doomsday rhetoric game theory need for fee war) of no blockreward. then even 90tx over 3 months still would end up costing maybe $66*
crypto is becoming a system of needing to in the future pay like $22 a month just to use it.
which is still more than an hours labour in 3rd world countries per tx
*blockreward= ~$8k*12.5=100k...
to compare pool income of future....100k/3000tx a block=$33 a tx..... open session+close session=$66
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again i am not saying "free"tx's. but when payment systems start charging more than an hours labour for a 3rd world country. most of the ethoses and goals of blockchain currencies are lost. especially when they start needing middlemen to manage/counter-sign peoples funds.. it kinda starts defeating the point of the original inventions glamour, novelty, solution and hope