I'm not sure how most of it works but could NMC be used as a simple address tool for Lightning Network transactions?

From the looks of things you have to enter a long string to connect to a channel. Would be easier to connect to xyz.bit

In the future: probably, assuming that Bitcoin does.  I'm a huge fan of SegWit, so I'd definitely like to get it activated on Namecoin.

In the near future: not before AAA.

You could probably use Namecoin for something like this, but as my familiarity with Lightning is somewhat lacking right now (need to catch up on that topic...) it's possible that there would be issues that I'm unaware of.  How often do new Lightning addresses get created?  Is reuse of Lightning addresses a problem like reuse of P2PKH/P2SH addresses is?

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thank you very much for responses.

I think price is being artifically held up by a very small buy support of someone dumping at the highest price they can get.If flash crash occurs where large bagholders just dumps for whatever BTC they can accumulate we could see price collapse on poloniex.It is worst I have ever seen it to date after some years apart from price going less than .0001 at one stage but I think it can go much lower and remain there for long term going further down as bitcoin rises in price.