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Re:Fidelity launches trade execution and custody for cryptoc... by Qworg on Monday October 29, 2018 @12:36AM (#18325095)
Do you have a source on the electricity use of major card networks?

Lightning is broken, sadly - not enough trust.

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Re:Fidelity launches trade execution and custody for cryptoc... by corv on Monday October 29, 2018 @12:48AM (#18325147)
It was part of a talk by Anthony Towns at Scaling Bitcoin 2018 in Tokyo.

https://youtu.be/y8hJ0VTPE34

I suggest you ask him e.g. on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajtowns

I think the jury is still out on Lightning.

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Re:Fidelity launches trade execution and custody for cryptoc... by xur17 on Monday October 29, 2018 @01:04AM (#18325194)
> Lightning is broken, sadly - not enough trust.

Can you elaborate on this?

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Re:Fidelity launches trade execution and custody for cryptoc... by Qworg on Monday October 29, 2018 @01:14AM (#18325226)
In short, people aren't holding enough value in their online node accounts.

Here's a short article on the phenomenon: https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/06/26/lighting-network-...

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