You're saying bitcoin doesn't scale, and that's not accurate. Bitcoin is scaling just fine. Lightning is not centralized. There are thousands of individual nodes running the protocol worldwide.
What you may be confused by is that there ARE centralized custodial wallets like Alby (npub1get…0nfm) and Wallet of Satoshi (npub1hcw…h9rq) that facilitate transactions for the user. What they do is provide easy onboarding and instant liquidity to users so they don't have to spin up their own nodes to make payments. However, they are not the entire Lightning Network, just participants on the network providing a valuable service to thier users.
Anyone with the desire to do so can run their own node fairly inexpensively and avoid using custodial Lightning if they choose to.
daniel / The: Daniel ⚡️ #OnlyDans
npub1ae…q4nwx
2023-04-20 15:56:31
in reply to nevent1q…5c8k
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2023-04-20 15:56:31Event JSON
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