show me one core dev calling it "unusable."
How about Antoine Riard as I wrote above?
LN processed $2.3B in Aug 2025 (Wallet of Satoshi data)
That's the waste of resources I'm talking about.
It's a gross design flaw by how LN works. More funds sitting there doesn't mean that someone is able to transact $2.3B.
Instead you'd have to split your funds to however much each channel has until you exhaust it.
Contrary to bitcoin, the more decentralized LN is, the harder it becomes to use.
Riard paused Fedimint work (not LN! ) to focus on Bitcoin Core
—- his GitHub says "temporary halt". $2.3B volume = real payments (0.5 sat avg fee), not "idle funds." Liquidity auto-rebalances via circular routes
—- your "exhausted channels" myth died in 2024. LN’s
17k nodes > ETH’s 3 centralized L2 sequencers. Run a node or admit you’ve never used it, I can't comprehend how someone who used it at least once could still spread FUD.