Hello,
I want to ask you if is lightning network potentially enough scalable to achieve stable Bitcoin in the future? If we admit that only new members open a new payment channel (and that LN is fully functionable and save) to connect into lightning network (and the amount of channel closing will be minimal) and set the funding transaction, is it enough little to avoid 8GB blocks and mining centralization?
Can't one hypothetical day the amount of new members per day be too high that the setting funding transactions on the blockchain (soon or later) overloads the network anyway?
Or that way: will be the amount of new participants per day increasing in ratio more than computational power of most computers (nodes)? Sorry, if is this question simple. Admit that not only financial services will run blockchain technology (include autonomous vehicles, factories, robots, smart homes etc. who all need to put a funding transaction on the blockchain).
I think that LN does not really solve the scalability problem at all. What if despite great transaction reduction will one day the amount of funding transactions be simply too high?