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Re:Bitcoin Is Dead, Long Live Bitcoin by kang on Friday January 15, 2016 @11:50AM (#10910422)
> VISA level transaction rates require insanely high block sizes

No. There are many other ways to scale bitcoin.

>Lightning Network is..based around advanced Bitcoin scripting usage

Rather quite the opposite. Lightning Network does not uses the bitcoin scripting.

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Re:Bitcoin Is Dead, Long Live Bitcoin by josephpoon on Saturday January 16, 2016 @03:09AM (#10914675)
Lightning Network for Bitcoin uses Bitcoin's scripting, as it uses real Bitcoin transactions.
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