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Re:The senatorial governance of Bitcoin: making (de)centrali... by alwillis on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @09:52AM (#21980404)
Lightning remains unready, forever 18 months away from the promised usable technology.

This is provably false. Lightning is huge and growing:

* more than $6 billion USD in liquidity

* nearly 11,000 nodes

* tens of thousands of transactions daily

* a growing ecosystem (https://www.lopp.net/lightning-information.html)

You can see the real-time stats at https://1ml.com/

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Re:The senatorial governance of Bitcoin: making (de)centrali... by mrb on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @02:43AM (#21989242)
Grossly incorrect stats you gave here...

There is only $6 million in capacity, not $6 billion.

Daily transactions are more likely in the few hundreds per day, not tens of thousands. Although this can't be determined with accuracy.

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Re:The senatorial governance of Bitcoin: making (de)centrali... by cedivad on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @04:25PM (#21985065)
*billion => million.
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