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> Which is why the meme with LN was "its 18 months away from wherever you are in time". yeah, if memes are the way you keep yourself informed on the topic then
by keymone 5y ago
> Which is why the meme with LN was "its 18 months away from wherever you are in time".
yeah, if memes are the way you keep yourself informed on the topic then i totally understand your point of view.
the reality is that LN works and what you call "small cliques" are just subnets that route payments internally efficiently but are also able to route externally when the need arises.
this is literally how distributed systems are scaled, internet being the largest one.
it would be centralized if nobody could use LN if some one or two largest nodes failed, but the protocol is open and everybody can open a channel with everybody else and nodes in the middle have no way to censor traffic because they don't know neither the sender nor the receiver.
you're simply misinformed.
- VHRanger 5y agoThe internet maintains the very centralized BGP to solve routability Again, either you centralize or you keep having it be a toy
- keymone 5y agoremoving any big LN node will cause disruption only to the channels directly opened with that node, but will largely be unnoticed by the rest of the network. so unless you point out the centers without which LN collapses, your claims are just bogus.