[Nursie]

Proof that I will be able to connect to HN is a lot different and less important than payments. It's also far from the only problem LN has.

If the network grows much, people creating and closing channels (two on-chain transactions) will start to gum up the system. If they don't close channels then they need to keep a node online or face various forms of attack. If they delegate that task to someone else, we've got yet another party to trust in a system that's already a failure when it comes to trustlessness. Even before all this, to make it work properly, vast quantities of BTC will need to be committed to the effort. The LN seems to me to be a joke.

And beyond that, well, what's this story about? Nobody really transacting in bitcoin anyway.