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> The lightning network is incredibly buggy and won't actually solve the problems it's promising

I'm curious to know why this is the case. I don't know much about it - ELI5 or a good link to read more?

It's not, it's fully functional and there are many users. Only people who haven't actually tried using it says things like "it's incredibly buggy".

How many? What is the transaction volume like compared to Ethereum, Bitcoin, BSC, etc?

I found this site after reading your comment and being curious myself. no promises on it being trustworthy data: https://1ml.com/statistics

Keep in mind that a lot of lightning end-users would have private channels that are truly peer-to-peer, so number of users is likely much higher than any public stats you could gather.

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