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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by xur17 on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @04:05PM (#26094789)
If you think lightning is a "trusted payment system", you clearly don't understand how it works.
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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by minsc__and__boo on Thursday February 11, 2021 @12:48AM (#26098643)
Lightning is the same as writing checks.

They are worthless transactions until they clear, so you have to make them with trusted parties. Otherwise you may as well just use bitcoin.

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