not to say LN will be everyone's cup of tea and will fix everything but it looks like a promising idea for moving volumes and opening up some options.
Speaking of LN, hit my first major snag with running c-lightning pulls off github. Saw some other dude already reported the problem, but tried to upgrade to a new version just now, and got a db upgrade failure condition.
Have quite a few channels open on my node. Going to be a huge pain to close all the channels, wait for the fund timeout locks to expire, move the funds back out to bitcoind, blow away ~/.lightning and start with a fresh install.
Sheeeeeeeit. Dagnabbit even.