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A comment on Lightning Network Skepticism.

Re:Lightning Network Skepticism by pstrateman on Friday December 25, 2015 @02:20PM (#10792044)
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/20...

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Re:Lightning Network Skepticism by mrblockchain on Saturday December 26, 2015 @02:41AM (#10793592)
So if Lightning is better than Bitcoin at being a P2P payments network, why not just build an altcoin?!
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Re:Lightning Network Skepticism by supermari0_ on Saturday December 26, 2015 @03:59AM (#10793703)
Because there's no good reason to implement it as an altcoin.
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