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CappyNate🍁 | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 100% agree. But the problem originates higher upstream to Bitcoin itself. 

The whole reason Lightning exists is because of flawed slow BTC block time.

Fork it. Reduce block time to 2 sec. Make block size unlimited. Mint all 21m instantly. 

TPS goes to the moon. Layer 2 is unneeded. Fees plummet. Energy efficiency soars. And security is virtually unaffected.
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LukeParker | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Tell us you haven't done the math without saying you haven't done the math.

You're talking about blocks of infinite size... We literally fought a war in 2017 and won against a majority of miners and businesses who just wanted to double the block size... Your proposal is redonkulous. 

We fought that war because doubling the block size would drastically reduce the number of nodes & harm bitcoin's decentralization/self-sovereignty.