Oddbean new post about login | logout Can lightning scale adequately without shared UTXOs? Is there another method I'm not aware of that exists or has been proposed to solve the scaling issue of theoretical fees vs population? #asknostr nostr:nevent1qqsdur0czzm3e23jtqqhm6nc7ehhgmdf52h3j7etcg8lklzmjz5hygcpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet5qgsg86qcm7lve6jkkr64z4mt8lfe57jsu8vpty6r2qpk37sgtnxevjcrqsqqqqqp602ljw
No. But that doesn't mean lightning can't scale or that we will find a trade off that is actually palatable for most people and not offensive to the most hardcore Bitcoiners... You know, the type where people might say, I'll prefer to do X but for those who aren't as savvy, at least Y won't rug them.
I believe that it can scale. I just want to know what's being done, if anything, to start heading towards that.
Apart from utxo sharing/ideas schemes like ark, channel factories and mercury wallet, there's the ecash stuff (fedi and cashu) and cashu's proof of reserves idea is quite nice, although it is not perfect. But if we want anything more sophisticated, I think we'll need to wait for some soft fork to come about, backed by solid research.
sharing ideas/schemes* (put the slash in the wrong place)
Yes, look into Ark, channel factories, and fedimint those are three promising proposals for scale. Nothing looks scalable when you first make it, but lightning's scale has increased every year and I fully expect that trend to continue. The internet has been switching from IPv4 to IPv6 for like a decade now. People used to think it could never scale past a single country. Patience. Lots of smart people working on this.
The only other one AFAIK is Enigma