TL;DRlaunching an L1 is objectively the right decision if you think you have what it takes to winhowever, the idea of a payments chain does not work in practicethe only way to permission blockspace is by being turing incomplete (bitcoin, stellar at first) OR by permissioning blockspacebut permissioned blockspace is closer to web2 than it is to actual blockchainand the second you remove the permissions, you run into the exact same perf issuesTBPN (@tbpn):.@0xMert_ on Stripe × Paradigm’s @Tempo L1:“If I were ...