wrong  eth is a ponzi scam

lightning network is centralized i don't like it, they need something else for fast transaction, btc pump is done because of the halving, not because of LN

I think lightning network could have an effect as it helps to increase the transactions per second massively.Important for future adoption.
Scaling on a level with a VISA and Mastercard will not be a dream anymore.It will become reality!
Plus, it will allow faster and cheaper transactions, micropayments will finally be possible and so on.
Lightning is imo an important step forward in the right direction.

A lot of people don't understand Bitcoin either, and yet here we are.

Correct. It is highly efficient for continuous (micro) payments.

ELI5:
You can easily find information yourself.

I don't understand people that come with this viewpoint. How many people understand how the current financial system actually works in detail? It is most likely less than 1% of the population. You don't need to understand it in-depth in order to use it (whether you want to understand it for various reasons is something else). The same goes for both Bitcoin and LN.

Well technically, depending on the adoption on LN you get a faster system of transacting. Even though locking funds takes time (~30 minutes on average at the moment), I expect people to do this prior to transacting. Once there is a need for huge TX volume, LN will provide the necessary infrastructure (among other things).

How do you quantify that statement? They have the biggest market share on e-commerce payments and they have capacity to boot. VisaNet handles an average of 150 million transactions every day

and is capable of handling more than 24,000 transactions per second. How does Bitcoin compare to that at the moment? http://www.coindesk.com/data/bitcoin-daily-transactions/ ...It's not easy to

compare the two, but it's clear VISA is still kicking ass. Bitcoin has to scale or implement LN to increase the capacity, or it will lag behind. 

Lightning Network is a good ideal,it fast the transforming.

No. It is not based on a just a "big hub" but rather the hub and smoke model which is common. It might be wise to clarify statements as this opens up the potential for misinformation (as can be found in r/btc).

How is that Google translate working out for you?

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Update: Updated post.

Its pretty possible that the Lightning net work could give a new steam to bitcoin. As it solves the bloating and scalability problem it will bring a lot more confidence and stanbility to the currency.

i will let lauda try and do some maths to try to explain the nonsense he believes that LN as of 2017 can handle billions of transactions a day.

i will poke him with some tip-bits to aid him to burst his hallucination and atleast come back to reality:
when LN is released.. bitcoin at that same time period also allows for 7500tx a block ONCHAIN
(based on the 2017 roadmap proposal as oppose to 2500tx potential now).
sidenote. although im saying 2500 per block potential now its actually less (1786 based on 250k daily average tx/144blocks)
this 7500tx ONCHAIN in 2017 is equal to 1,080,000tx a day ONCHAIN.(7500 x 144)

now he has to explain how 1billion LN transactions can aggregate down to 1million A DAY ONCHAIN

here is a hint.
on average people do one transaction a day(not 1000).
on average 1bill people do NOT only pay just one million destinations
on average for the 7billion people of the world, there is not just 7million businesses, landlords, etc in the world

take for instance america: 300mill people and 30million businesses(google it)
(i didnt include the 25million population still wearing diapers, obviously they dont buy anything so dont knitpick that im not saying over 320m)

basically and logically.. 300mill peoples funds end up in 30mill destinations.. when thinking about people spending things, in short 10% aggregation/slimming down at best(buying products)
technically 30million destinations eventually goes back out to 300million people.. usually not the same that paid in (wages to staff, not customers) and not the same hour/day..
they may pay those destinations repeatedly or just one. and the 30m destinations may pay out back to the 300mill..
but basically 300m inputs 30m outputs would exist going bidirectional

now lets get technical
we all know that the settlement ONCHAIN tx needs to be 7500tx a block to get accepted by mining pools

and so the LN would open the channel, handle the transactions until the aggregated settlement transaction totaled a 7500tx, then close the channel to settle it. where the users would then need to re-lock their funds all over again in a separate block afterwards.

meaning AT VERY BEST if all americans paid in a predictable manner.. the LN could handle 75,000tx(un-aggregated) per 10 minutes. or 10.8million transactions (un-aggregated) within LN a day
(i say 'if predictable' because not everyone pays the same destinations at the same time normally/naturally)
this is far far far no where near the 300million transactions a day done in america

now here is the interesting part.. i know lauda will harp on that once the 30mill businesses are paid. the employees can move their wages within LN
 to pay bills and buy food.. meaning that more then 75,000tx can be aggregated down to the 7500tx ONCHAIN limit per settlement...

but he will forget one fundamental thing.. the channel doesnt stay open for a month by default.. it closes when the aggregated transaction limit hits the amount that would be acceptable as a ONCHAIN block transaction.

back to using the american public scenario:
with there being 300million transactions a day for america. aggregated to 30million, which means that it would take 30 days to settle 1 days LN transactions because ONCHAIN blocks can only fit 1million transactions a day. and although 300mill tx is aggregated to 30mill.. its still not enough

as i mentioned but wording it differently.. if a LN channel settled every 10 minutes it can only handle 1million aggregated transactions a day or 10.8mill LN(un-agregatated) a day and i dont think someone can get their wage, buy groceries, pay landlord etc all in the same 10 minutes that the customer paid the retailer/workplace.. so improvements on the aggregation due to assumptions that bi-directional transactions will occur are minimal.

in short:
at very best based on how people in america spend money. bitcoins LN can only handle 10mill transactions a day thanks to LN
as oppose to 1million in 2017 onchain without LN or 360,000 potential onchain now.

but knowing the channel closing occurs rapidly to achieve 10million tx and not everyone is paying the same destinations at the same time. its easy to expect actual real life usage scaling to be far far less then 10 fold aggregation.
my estimates based on people only paying a landlord once a month, groceries once a week, car fuel a few times a week, snack once a day..
best projections of real usage would be LN doing 2-5million transactions a day as a more realistic number.(but still inflated)

there is no point throwing magic numbers into the air if the reality bottlenecks trying to achieve it.

LN will not be used as a massive upscaling for every day usage of general population.. it will however reduce "spam" transactions of faucets and satoshiDice style games.

rant over

my on topic opinion
LN wont suddenly make bitcoins couple million userbase able to explode to billions of users over night. i would say it would just double it or slightly more.
LN along with long term proper onchain block scaling will SLOWLY increase capacity. but dont expect billions of users or even hundreds of millions of users happily using bitcoin in the next decade