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The authors primary concern is that lightning will produce a hub and spoke model. The design has been a true peer-to-peer payments network without hubs for qui
by pstrateman 11y ago
The authors primary concern is that lightning will produce a hub and spoke model.
The design has been a true peer-to-peer payments network without hubs for quite a while[1].
[1] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2015-July/000019.html https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/20...
- mrblockchain 11y agoSo if Lightning is better than Bitcoin at being a P2P payments network, why not just build an altcoin?!
- supermari0_ 11y agoBecause there's no good reason to implement it as an altcoin.
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