[alwillis]

Lightning remains unready, forever 18 months away from the promised usable technology.

This is provably false. Lightning is huge and growing:

* more than $6 billion USD in liquidity

* nearly 11,000 nodes

* tens of thousands of transactions daily

* a growing ecosystem (https://www.lopp.net/lightning-information.html)

You can see the real-time stats at https://1ml.com/

[mrb]

Grossly incorrect stats you gave here...

There is only $6 million in capacity, not $6 billion.

Daily transactions are more likely in the few hundreds per day, not tens of thousands. Although this can't be determined with accuracy.

[cedivad]

*billion => million.