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by lawn 2853 days ago
> virtually zero fees

Except when you settle the transactions where you will pay possibly very large fees.

> anonymously

Nope.

> without any need to wait for block confirmations

0-conf is fine for all but the very largest purchases using simple heuristics.

> And all of this works right now on mainnet?

No it's not release ready yet. Did you ignore all the "you may lose funds" warnings?

> Next up is solving efficient routing

Yeah good luck with that... Solving decentralized routing in an adversarial environment is a much harder problem than scaling Bitcoin. Leaving such a detail is idiotic, especially since there's still no idea how to do it.

Also you forgot watchtowers (since you need to be always online to receive funds or you'll get defrauded). Yes that's online with your wallet...