> The amount of transactions the Bitcoin blockchain handles does not impact how many transactions can be done in Bitcoin via higher layers like the Lightning Network.

So there's no misconception. Bitcoin is as slow as ever, and handles very few transactions. It's other layers that provide more transactions. They store those transactions and then dump it in a batch to blockchain.

Congrats. You've invented batch transactions. Something that traditional banking systems has been doing since the middle ages.

> secure and trustless payment methods are a new thing that only came up a few years ago, and nothing like it existed before in the history of mankind.

Very doubtful. All that crypto space has invented so far has been known to mankind for generations (and in some cases for millenia). Moreover, for actual usefulness you need trust and enforcement, none of which are provided by crypto.

> With cryptographic solutions like Bitcoin+Lightning, no trust is needed anymore.

Except, you know, when I order something on Amazon, I expect the goods I ordered to actually arrive, so I trust Amazon, trust the seller, trust the postal service etc. to deliver this to me.

And if the goods don't arrive? I trust my bank to revert the transaction.

You’ve moved trust from the banking system into code. That might be a good thing. I will look into how the lightening network works to inform myself. The climate change and extreme volatility amongst other issues are still going to prevent Bitcoin being adopted for settlements.