With the Bitcoin mempool nearly empty and 1 sat/B transactions clearing in minutes, you guys can go rightly fk off for good. Seriously. Don't even try to raise that argument here ever, EVER again. Piss off.
Tough titties, bucko. Your impotent rant hath no power here. I'll raise the argument whenever I want.
Quite dismayingly, the Bitcoin transaction rate seems to be suffering a lack of interest. It has been chopped in half since the heady days of $20K Bitcoin.
https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactionsAre there 200,000 transactions on LN between the paltry 1000 or so nodes to make up for it? I admit I have been unable to find any statistics, but it seems rather unlikely.
A peer-to-peer system that is seeing declining use is nothing to celebrate.
Transaction batching.