Lightning is an environment where all the nodes have to compete on cost (or speed) and everything is digital. The costs of transactions are currently near zero now, is there a reason you think it will increase?
There are a lot of people that want to just hold onto Bitcoin right now. Maybe the cost of a Lightning transaction will go up dramatically if that changes? But if such a protocol evolves to support swapping coins in and out of the channel lockup from different owners than potentially anyone holding Bitcoin for any duration can contribute.
There are a lot of people that want to just hold onto Bitcoin right now. Maybe the cost of a Lightning transaction will go up dramatically if that changes? But if such a protocol evolves to support swapping coins in and out of the channel lockup from different owners than potentially anyone holding Bitcoin for any duration can contribute.