Post by Justin Moon
Lighting absolutely does not take 5-10 seconds to settle a payment. Looking at payments from one of the largest custodial providers settlements are *way* faster than that most of the time.
Sure, if you’re sending from a shitty node that doesn’t have good pathfinding[1] then it can take a bunch of retries and a while, but, like, don’t do that? Cashu could take 5 seconds if you hit bad Tor relays, but, again, like, don’t do that 🤷♂️.
[1] lightningdevkit.org/blog/ldk-pathfinding
Everytime I zap someone vie Lightning from my wallet, it takes 5-10 seconds for the zap to settle and for everyone to see it happen on nostr.
Everytime, I think "this could've been an instant nutzap". "Tap, boom. Tap, boom. Zap zap zap. I would be zapping so much more."
The reason a nutzap is instLoose Perch recently said he thinks we have explored 1% of what zaps can be. He might be right. I think the reordering of events that a bearer zap system like with Cashu brings could open new doors for insane UX and it looks like we're actually going to find out. We have zero-config wallets now. Imagine how co
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I’m in Madeira right now and payments from Primal (ie Strike) almost never complete in 5 seconds. Maybe 1 in 10 so far.
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I make Lightning transactions literally every day and it's always been like that. Once in a blue moon they succeed < 5s. It happens, but it's definitely not the norm.
And we need to add the zap part (getting invoice via http, sender publishing zap request, receiver publishing zap receipt on nostr).
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These payments are in-person to a merchant pos. Don’t know what pos they are using.
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