hydra VS eth-gasnow-extention

So many wrong statements made in your comment it's pretty wild. My original comment was to highlight some differences between Cardano and Ethereum in regards to how they operate rather than to decide which one was better. Regardless, you've decided it was complete non-sense and gone on a tangent because I state both tx fee models have their pros and cons? Lol. If you think a viable solution is to have insane gas fees on the L1 then we fundamentally disagree and crypto will never find real adoption. You've blurted so many things idk where to start but to sort of sum it up is that Cardano has scaled and is still scaling with things like input endorsers and hydra which is actually just about ready to start using: https://hydra.family/head-protocol/ This also tells me your information about what's happening is outdated. Also I know exactly what throughput is, my point was that the metric doesn't capture the full picture for different blockchains capabilities.. We can go all day but you clearly have something against Cardano, I'm happy to have a genuine discussion but the intent on bashing is clear here as this was unprovoked.

Hydra, a L2 solution using isomorphic state channels. Caveat: This is NOT an easy fix that can simply scale all Cardano dapps, it remains to be seen what parts of Cardano can actually be scaled by Hydra. This currently is a bit complicated. Sundaeswap is experimenting with Hydra, but Axo devs do not think Hydra is good for scaling DEXs...

The Hydra team completed work on a different way of dealing with contests during the contestation period. These will now always push the deadline out, making contestation periods easier to pick depending on the network a head runs on. They also added an important acceptance test and completed internal refactoring of the protocol logic, making future changes easier to implement.

I'm thinking about this for some time, about having a bot for P2P exchange much like P2P lightning bot but for Cardano and no, necessarily implementing a full-blown "lightning network", but I'm confused about the state of the Hydra Head Protocol and its capabilities for this particular use case.

The Hydra team released version0.8.1, which includes several fixes and an extension of the persistence (introduced by version 0.8.0) of replaying server outputs to make clients like the hydra-tui aware of the latest hydra-node state. The team also worked on the specification and closing gaps in the on-chain scripts, collaborated with the education team on a Hydra tutorial, and renamed the repository from hydra-poc to `hydra`.

Gas fees are not at 1000 gwei all the time, as some screenshots might suggest. You can see the historic average gas price on gasnow.org

Just noticed https://www.gasnow.org/ now redirects to www.bitcoin.org

There's your first mistake. Secondly, be in no doubt that BTC maxi culture isn't just some "slightly over the top allegiance". It genuinely is like a batshit crazy religious cult, but also organized. Check it out: https://www.gasnow.org has been purchased and now points to bitcoin.org. Crazy people do shit like that.

I think everyone already knows that https://www.gasnow.org/ will end all services at 16:00 UTC+0 on the 15th of October, 2021 .

swapping looks like its about 186 USD in fees so I would be aware of that , found this according to this site, be aware that site is going away in about 5 days. Also another thing to be aware as of right now eth gas fees are ridiculous 500+

also for exchanges not listed there like coinbase , who uses whatever network fees are when you do exchange, you can look here to see how much swap fee would be relatively speaking. Gas fees aren't really high right now so it may not be best judge of what you or your dad would be paying to transfer.

There are websites like this where you can view the fluctuation at certain times in the past week. Not necessary though as the lowest every week is pretty consistently 2-3am EST on mondays and Tuesdays

Depends on what the fees are at the time you want to Bridger over, keep track live average fees here as we have no control over them: https://www.gasnow.org/

This was my go to site to check gas prices when I was thinking of buying a particular token, as it shows at a glance approximately what it would cost in fees https://www.gasnow.org

Yesterday someone posted about alternatives to gasnow.org since they are calling it quits. The gas estimator service from Blocknative (blocknative.com/gas-estimator) was mentioned.