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Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat... by sebleon on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @12:40PM (#17248644)
> we know Bitcoin doesn’t scale to handle the volume of transactions needed

No longer true. I used to believe this as well, but I’ve been blown away by the work from Lightning Network [1]. Subsecond transactions that happen off the Bitcoin blockchain, scales beautifully.

[1] http://lightning.network

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Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat... by amalcon on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @01:33PM (#17249176)
Does that actually exist? It was vaporware for a pretty long time (though admittedly, I haven't checked in more than a year).
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Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat... by yarrel on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @01:39PM (#17249250)
It does exist and work. It's early days but you can now use it. Source: I bought a sticker using it. :-)
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Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat... by cdiddy2 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @01:56PM (#17249400)
Yes but its still in beta on the mainnet so its not ready for daily use yet. You can see all the nodes here https://lnmainnet.gaben.win/
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