The simple answer is because fiat is dying. The deeper answer is that this entire statement is misleading. While Lightning does have routing and liquidity mechanics under the hood, those aren't issues a company like Epic would ever have to deal with directly. Epic would likely use a payment provider, like ZBD (nprofile…x85g) that I mentioned above with Splitgate, that abstracts all that away. And to say fiat has 'no such problems' ignores the real world issues with fraud, chargebacks, fees and settlement delays that fiat rails still deal with on the daily. So the comparison doesn’t hold.
Also, the part I was saying was wrong wasn’t about fiat vs. Lightning. It was your blanket claim that Lightning is 'jank' and can’t scale. That’s just not grounded in reality. Lightning is already handling microtransactions in live gaming environments today. Even my Rust server, running with just a handful of open channels, has no issue routing sats instantly and reliably. Lightning payments at scale isn’t theoretical, it’s happening right now, in the wild.
As for Zenon, calling it a 'Lightning successor' is pure shitcoin marketing. It’s a speculative project with no real adoption, no meaningful developer ecosystem and no demonstrated ability to scale in production plus it includes the need for a shitcoin. Meanwhile, Lightning has global reach, developer momentum, enterprise interest and actual users. Don’t let a buzzword filled whitepaper distract from a protocol that’s already working. Hype doesn't scale, working code does.
Patrick
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2025-04-20 11:39:40
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