You know, the above LN discussion is why pretty much why every time a bankster coin like XRP pass BCH in marketcap, BCH will be pumped to heck to surpass it.  Because that bankster coin also offer unlimited tx capacity with even lower fee, and guess what, it even ironically resembles how LN might look like in operation, if LN ever becomes operational.  If some layer 2 LN coin can be worth more than BCH, then guess what the base layer coin would be worth?

If some easy and cheap L2 can be implemented without serious trust/security tradeoffs, then we would already have Gold Standard 2.0 empowered by internet and bitcoin price would be on its way out of Milky Way galaxy.