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Re:Web3 – A Vision for a Decentralized Web by rglover on Friday October 01, 2021 @12:11PM (#28720279)
Re: Bitcoin scaling it's worth looking at the Lightning Network. Much faster and significant throughput: https://lightning.network/

This is what Twitter is in the process of implementing through Strike.

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Re:Web3 – A Vision for a Decentralized Web by RNCTX on Friday October 01, 2021 @01:55PM (#28721553)
None of this addresses the ever-increasing and mostly-pointless power consumption aspects.

And sorry if I don't trust the self-described "trust-less" money developers to get batching right on the first try. The only reason this isn't being exploited is because no one is using it.

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Re:Web3 – A Vision for a Decentralized Web by rglover on Friday October 01, 2021 @03:23PM (#28722415)
Now do the petrodollar.
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Re:Web3 – A Vision for a Decentralized Web by floatboth on Friday October 01, 2021 @07:20PM (#28724502)
It's a complete joke.

https://github.com/davidshares/Lightning-Network

https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/mlc5o6/how_is_lig...

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