This is pure FUD. Satoshi himself proposed the first version of payment channels [1]. The Lightning Network paper has zero authors from Blockstream [2]. At lea

This is pure FUD. Satoshi himself proposed the first version of payment channels [1]. The Lightning Network paper has zero authors from Blockstream [2]. At least two other entirely independent companies are working on Lightning Network implementations [3][4]. It's well understood how trustless LN transactions work [5]. The spec [6] and code are open source, feel free to look for a "backdoor". 1. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Payment_channels#Nakamoto_high-frequency_transactions https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Payment_channels#Nakamoto_high-fr... 2. https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf 3. https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd 4. https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair 5. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Hashed_Timelock_Contracts https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Hashed_Timelock_Contracts 6. https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc