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Re:Bitcoin Core: Bitcoin Core 0.21.1 released with Taproot a... by dane-pgp on Monday May 03, 2021 @07:59AM (#27023957)
Startups have a duty to their shareholders to make money, whereas Bitcoin has at least a nominal duty to its inventor[0] and its whitepaper.

There's nothing wrong, though, with someone taking the open source code and creating LightningCoin from it, though. That would be the equivalent of a pivot.

[0] http://satoshinakamoto.me/2008/11/02/re-bitcoin-p2p-e-cash-p...

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Re:Bitcoin Core: Bitcoin Core 0.21.1 released with Taproot a... by nullc on Monday May 03, 2021 @08:50AM (#27024360)
Payment channels were invented by Satoshi and actually baked into the transaction format from day one-- it's why transactions have locktimes and sequence numbers.
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