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Re:402 Payment Required, and why micropayments are doomed by ChainOfFools on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @10:44PM (#23242781)
well sure, why not. this decentralization thing is mostly a fiction anyway, might as well re-centralize our superficially p2p money network back into a p2h2p model, since that actually works.
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Re:402 Payment Required, and why micropayments are doomed by CodeShmode on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @01:11AM (#23243487)
The handy thing about LN is that we can have that model without having to trust the hub in the middle. If there's a disagreement of the state of the funds in the channel it falls back to regular bitcoin transactions to resolve it.

If such a hub does this too much then they'll have trouble getting others to commit funds to a channel to them.

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