There is one major problem with Lightning. It's centralized while Hive is not. Another huge problem is liquidity as mentioned by @brianoflondon and he found a really smart way to solve it with Hive. There could be so many use cases of this outside the podcasting world.
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We will see how it all unfolds. There is a lot more that needs to be done. As he commented in the article, this cannot run exclusively on Hive (at least not yet).
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