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Re:Coinbase Wants to Be Too Big to Fail by RustyRussell on Thursday September 27, 2018 @08:15PM (#18089990)
This is completely wrong. The number for 200M people are (presumably) how many people can onramp/offramp, nothing to do with transaction rate.

Disclaimer: editor of Lightning BOLT specs, lead dev of one implementation (c-lightning)

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Re:Coinbase Wants to Be Too Big to Fail by bduerst on Friday September 28, 2018 @04:46PM (#18096920)
Then you can answer this: How does lightning confirm transactions between 200M?

And what are the limits of that network?

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