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 Bitcoin mining is completely industrialized and the same thing will happen to lightning 

For better or worse 
 By industrialized do you mean done professionally? 
 Yep, won't be a bunch of raspberry pis imo 
 I think it’s for better, if bitcoin aims to become world reserve asset. 
 For worse then 
 We are already seeing the emergence with LSP's (Which are needed). What's going to matter is how open the network remains and allowing entrants without barriers other than sats and infrastructure. Those clamoring for a level of regulation/oversight are missing the point.  
 Sadly I do think we will see many exchanges send only to whitelisted nodes, ie other exchanges, and likely blacklist fedimints and the like 
 Can we have anonymized fiat rails? Robosats/Bisq are options but I am not sure what the level of use is (a lot less than major exchanges). Moving forward though my thinking is that when the fiat system collapses those rails will be less needed and exchanges can go piss up a rope. 
 Stablecoins on lightning probably best we can do on this front, but still needs some fiat backer, no idea

Hopefully just sats the standard in the long run 🙏🫡 
 So not an Optimus Prime build entirely of Pi4s? 

Damn. 
 and I will continue to pleb mine and run my own node