Blockstream may hope that alternative is them, and they need Bitcoin to still function as a settlement layer...
I keep hearing these insinuations that Blockstream is going to control the payment channel layer (LN) . Do you guys really think that LN isn't going to be open source and available for any node to to compete with Blockstream settlement nodes with? Do you really believe that any of us will bother touching any payment channel that isn't open source?