This is a very intriguing idea. I don't yet understand VSC.
I am happy to see another developer innovating on Hive and I have been supporting the VSC funding requests even though I don't understand it yet, as a promising development on Hive.
I have quite frankly wondered why people didn't route their payments through Dash all these years, in a sort of Bitcoin to Dash, Dash to Dash, Dash to Bitcoin route, because like you and those Bitcoin maxis I see Lightning as flawed, based on the written accounts from Lighning Node operators here on Hive, that it is centralied, and by design the counterparty can take advantage of you.