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Good improvement, which proves we were right with DPOS.
Now, when will bitcoin start to catch up in performance?

Answer: When we remove the miners for them.

LN looks promissing but we will see :)

there's so much misinformation that it's best to test it in real environment and see the results.

AFAIK It's not in production yet, time will tell.. it may drive everyone towards BTC-U ;D