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Re:Lightning Network Skepticism by josephpoon on Friday December 25, 2015 @03:38PM (#10792290)
It's already infeasible to directly make a single spend of $0.0001 on the blockchain itself (transaction fees are $0.02-$0.05).
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Re:Lightning Network Skepticism by 3dfan on Saturday December 26, 2015 @04:34AM (#10793745)
What is the use case of spending $0.0001?
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Re:Lightning Network Skepticism by Taek on Saturday December 26, 2015 @08:11AM (#10794049)
Downloading a webpage, for example. Sending an email, giving someone an upvote, making use of a caching service.

Basically any sort of payment you would want to do at the machine level. If I'm uploading a file to you, I would want you to pay per MB because I'm not sure if you're going to leave after you have 50% of the file.

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