> We’re interested in what’s happening with Lightning and other proposals to enable faster payments.
Please be careful about promoting LN. It's great tech, yes.
> this stuff really works!
* yes, but please don't actually use it with money yet. [1]
[1] https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning#project-status
The routing of transactions just won't work in a fully peer-to-peer network. Inevitably large "Tier 1" hubs, interconnected together, will surely be needed.
Djikstra or Bellman-Ford type algorithms won't scale to where they need to for anything else, likewise users won't maintain enough funds in channels to make potential routes usable.
We're talking about a $100+ billion market cap cryptocurrency and nobody knows how it's going to work. It's hype, speculation and memes all the way down. The power of greed.
People know the risks. It's just fun technology to play with.
Functional testing only goes so far and stops at the assumption that the code and design are correct.