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vnprc | 1 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 > everyone still has the ability to use Layer 2 self-custodial solutions if they choose—there’s nothing stopping them.

high fees stop them

> What matters is that everyone has an equal opportunity to do so. If someone doesn’t own enough sats for a UTXO, that’s fine.

you contradict yourself
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Nic | 1 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 How am I contradicting myself?

I'll leave the high fee rebuttal be, because I have a feeling that we simply have an ideological disagreement.
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vnprc | 1 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Nope. You need to be able to pay the prevailing fee rates in order to use any L2. They all rely on the assumption that you can unilaterally exit, which is another way to say that you need to be able to go on-chain. If you can't afford on-chain fees then you can't afford a lightning channel.

You don't have equality of opportunity if most people can't afford that opportunity. Do we have equality of opportunity for super yachts? Depends on how you define it I guess, but super yachts are a luxury item, freedom of transaction is a basic human right. I like to think we can do better than "freedom for those who can afford it".