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Any change on the Bitcoin protocol seems to be extremely slowly adopted so it will probably take at least 2 more years to get any kind of adoption, Segwit adopt

• keymone 9y ago
  LN does not need any changes to the bitcoin protocol, it is already out and working on mainnet even if in pre-alpha state.
  • shawabawa3 9y ago
    It needs changes to usage patterns, similar to segwit. 99% of people won't be able to run their own nodes, so a huge amount of infrastructure and services needs to built around it before it's useful for more than a few percent of people. I'd guess in a years time we'll still be hearing about how lightning will save us from fees soon
    • quadcore 9y ago
      99% of people won't be able to run their own nodes Can you elaborate on this please. Why is that? Sorry for my lack of technical knowledge.
    • keymone 9y ago
      all LN needs is segwit address, which is single tx if your BTC is still in legacy address. > 99% of people won't be able to run their own nodes 99% don't need to run full nodes, they can (and mostly do) use SPV wallets. full nodes are important to network connectivity, but running a full node right now is not expensive - i run one on rpi3.