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Re:Mexican billionaire Salinas says his banking business may... by serial_dev on Monday June 28, 2021 @10:37AM (#27662553)
Is the Lightning Network ready and 100% rolled out? When will it be ready? Which energy consumption numbers were incorrect in your parent comment?

> Cryptocurrency is a genie out of a bottle

That might be true, but that doesn't mean that criticism of Bitcoin (which is only one of the crypto currencies) is not valid.

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Re:Mexican billionaire Salinas says his banking business may... by neb_b on Monday June 28, 2021 @10:43AM (#27662637)
There is still active development, but https://strike.me uses the lightning network. There are several other apps built on top of the lightning network.

I use the lightning network almost every day listening to podcasts with the Breeze app https://breez.technology/

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Re:Mexican billionaire Salinas says his banking business may... by thebean11 on Monday June 28, 2021 @11:36AM (#27663246)
> Which energy consumption numbers were incorrect in your parent comment?

The number of transactions per second of Bitcoin, as it can handle many if you include lightning

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Re:Mexican billionaire Salinas says his banking business may... by cjaybo on Monday June 28, 2021 @12:01PM (#27663586)
And what about the answers to the two questions leading up to that one?
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Re:Mexican billionaire Salinas says his banking business may... by thebean11 on Monday June 28, 2021 @12:10PM (#27663708)
I'm not sure how to answer those, what exactly is the question? The lightning network is live, you can use it now.
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Re:Mexican billionaire Salinas says his banking business may... by serial_dev on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @07:55AM (#27674593)
If I'm buying BTC for 2000 dollars today, will I use the lightning network?
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Re:Mexican billionaire Salinas says his banking business may... by thebean11 on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @10:18AM (#27676094)
What?
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