regarding that Lightning fud:
Stakenets Lightning network does not equal Bitcoins Lightning network, like your LAN is not your neighbours LAN
I took some arguments from a fud article on Lightning:
>letemspin.com/bitcoin-lightning-network-is-a-dead-end/
>But then…I started to hit some snags. I won money on online betting sites, but couldn’t withdraw the money because I needed incoming channels connecting to my node with money on the other side of the equation. I was like “what the fuck?”
Stakenet solved this by implementing a "Channel Rental Feature". You will just rent a channel that provides liquidity for you for a few cents
>Then I started trying to close some channels to get money back out of lightning. God what a hassle.
will be completly automated. Imagine having a switch next to your balance and moving it to the left puts e.g. 20% of your balance off-chain, moving it to the right puts it off-chain. Of course you'll have to give it a little wait for the work to be done in the background, but thats what it'll look like
>So I’d have to create a new lightning channel every month to pay my staff anyway, so I’d be doing onchain tx anyway
You'll just keep those channels open as they will allow you to send/receive via Lightning. Same for the staff. Yes, initially it's a on-chain transaction with on-chain fees, BUT after that one every following transaction will be instant, off-chain and with microfees
>But the staff don’t get paid enough to warrant $100 fees for each channel.
fees for opening a channel are around 20cents and depend HEAVILY on the blockchain used for that. I suggest paying via LTC or just using USDT. Stakenet will instantly swap it to whichever currency is wished for
>Plus what are they doing to do once I’ve paid them via LN? There’s no way I can expect them to run their own nodes.
Masternodes act as Lightning nodes. Stakenet connects the users to those nodes