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 I'm going to take this opportunity to address an elephant in the room. 🐘

One key take away that I've realised in the past 24 hours is how far we still have to go before lightning is ready for the mass market.
For all it's faults in good practice, WoS actually made this stuff work for a lot of people. Now, I'm happy to learn the ins and outs of different wallets, the network and technical aspects, but anyone who thinks that average Joe and his mother are going to go through the rigemerol of balancing liquidity and jumping through hoops is delusional. If we honestly want to progress the idea of hyperbotcoinization, there HAS to be options out there as simple as WoS. I would really hope they could come with best practices as standard but I also acknowledge that convenience usually requires compromise.

TL:DR; Lightning needs to be more user friendly for the masses.