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Re:BitPay Will Process Payments on Multiple Blockchains, Sta... by SnowProblem on Friday December 15, 2017 @08:11PM (#15936715)
This is too complicated. I would gladly pay small txn fees to avoid having to manage payment channels.
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Re:BitPay Will Process Payments on Multiple Blockchains, Sta... by ericb on Saturday December 16, 2017 @08:02AM (#15939355)
The surface area of lightning scares me. Don't get me wrong, I hope it works, but it just sounds really unlikely to.
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Re:BitPay Will Process Payments on Multiple Blockchains, Sta... by Frogolocalypse on Friday December 15, 2017 @08:13PM (#15936728)
It's no more complex than running any other bitcoin wallet. It is, after all, bitcoin. The only difference really is that lightning is instantaneous and immutable, where blockchain transactions require you to wait until a transaction has been confirmed in the relevant blockchain in order to be secure.

And no-one will force you to use it. If you choose to continue using bitcoin transactions natively, no-one is going to stop you.

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