Description: Explain to me why lightning or any other convoluted 2nd layer "solution" has any right to exist when it can be done fast and cheap, on-chain, truly peer-to-peer.
BTC started on the same blockchain as Bitcoin Cash but crippled the way it operates in order to force users into convoluted, patented "solutions" (like lightning) to transact. BTC intentionally can't scale (hence the "solutions" to "solve" this) and transactions costing upwards of $10.- USD (even for small amounts) aren't uncommon when the network is congested.
Blockstream and their investors use significant resources to manipulate planned operations to convey selected information to targeted groups and individuals in order to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning and to modify behavior while dissuading them from critical thinking or accepting factual information from the opposing side. the narrative and actively censor all of the primary Bitcoin communities such as r/Bitcoin. r/CryptoCurrency, r/BitcoinMarkets, mailing lists, Bitcoin Talk, wikis,
The banking establishment has good reason to keep the population distracted with their artificially pumped , useless (for you and me) and harmless (to them) BTC . A truly decentralized currency like Bitcoin will be their death.