WARNING: If you try to use the Lightning Network you are at extremely HIGH RISK of losing funds and is not recommended or safe to do at this time or for the foreseeable future
LN being total rubbish has been known for a very long time. My take is that it sort of de-solves the problems Bitcoin solved, and adds lots of new problems, then the programmers try|to debug their way out of poor design, which obviously will just lead to repeated cycles of trouble. Rick Falkvinge is a must watch on LN: