[jazzyjackson]

I haven’t looked at lightning since it was vaporware so I’ll have to check that out… I don’t know much about channels, is there really no public ledger in that case?

[qecez]

Same thing, tried dipping my toes a couple of years ago, payments would often fail, gui inexistent, etc. But we've come a long way since then.

For starters, download bluewallet and get some free sats to play around with:

https://lnfaucet.com

https://fixedfloat.com/lightning-faucet

Quite a rabbit hole you're falling into. And no, there's no public ledger.