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If you want a trustless system, you have to sacrifice performance. At least the proof of stake blockchains like Ethereum don't use that much energy, and you get a pretty cheap and fast transaction with layer 2 solutions on par with credit card transactions.
But if you're using layer 2 solutions, then you're not actually using the blockchain directly, right? Might as well use credit card then?
All transactions are still eventually commited to Layer 1 though, so you're still using the Blockchain when using L2s.
No, just the final state. And you are changing into trusting a centralised node, which makes no difference compared to existing systems