I&#x27;ll take all these improvements with a pinch of salt until they are actually in the wild.<p>Take the lighting network for example. The idea has been floating around for quite some time but in practice its still vaporware.<p>Yet, ask any bitcoin enthusiast what&#x27;s being done to solve the scalability problem and the LN is trotted out as if it were already widely adopted. It&#x27;s ridiculous.