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Re:El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as official currency, first co... by SamPatt on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @01:55PM (#28447723)
Not everyone is forced to store it though.

You don't need consensus about the state of the entire network on layer 2 like you do on layer 1.

So it's not really a problem.

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Re:El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as official currency, first co... by xur17 on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @02:21PM (#28448046)
More specifically, only the channel participants have to store it, and only as long as the channel is open.
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