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The political angle is more interesting to me, since the Lightning Network is developed by Blockstream, whose investors include: Reid Hoffman, Khosla Ventures
by fourstar 9y ago
The political angle is more interesting to me, since the Lightning Network is developed by Blockstream, whose investors include:
Reid Hoffman, Khosla Ventures and Real Ventures, Nicolas Berggruen, Crypto Currency Partners, Future\Perfect Ventures, Danny Hillis, Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, Max Levchin, Mosaic Ventures, Ray Ozzie, Ribbit Capital, Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures, Horizons Ventures, AXA Strategic Ventures, and Digital Garage.
Think again, if you REALLY still think Bitcoin (core) is "decentralized".
(For the record, I don't think Bcash is either).
- sunsu 9y agoLightning Network is not "developed by Blockstream". There are 3 primary teams that have contributed to the specification: ACINQ, Blockstream, and Lightning Labs. All of the projects are open source and have outside contributors.
- agorabinary 9y agoThis is standard Alex Jonesian "association implies conspiracy" type thinking. They are associated and that's it. LN development is as open source as can be.