[talldayo]

...which themselves are unique projects that might as well separate from the L1 chain entirely if they intend to actually solve the transaction bottleneck issue. Stuff like Lightning is cute on paper, but it really only stands to make you realize how horribly doomed the main currency is conceptually.

L2 chains are where I stopped being interested in crypto. It's like reading the plaque of Ozymandias and thinking to yourself "Ah, the desert. What a lovely place to build my next palace."

[whimsicalism]

I mean I think that bitcoin is a dumb project, but layer 2s clearly make sense and are an inevitability - another chain has custody and keeps track of its own state and lets you do custom things there.