RE: Ordinals and the Mempool Apocalypse
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I've never understood how lightning node operators make money. The profit margin of lightning node operators must be tiny and can turn negative so easily.
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They don't. Lightning itself is poorly incentivized. The most likely outcome is that businesses can USE lightning to do other productive businesses, but Lightning won't be decentralised.
I was literally just about to say that they DON'T! LOL, we are definitely of similar perspective on this. B2B is one possible use, but, you still have to settle the transaction on-chain, which is backed up for weeks now according to the mempool.
Transactions can and do go through in 10 to 20 minutes, but you just need to set a very high fee to get that.