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Re:Bitcoin: Who owns it, who mines it, who’s breaking the law by pornel on Friday October 15, 2021 @04:55PM (#28883041)
Yes, please continue, because all of these things are still a rounding error compared to Bitcoin, despite serving more functions and handling orders of magnitude more transactions than Bitcoin.
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Re:Bitcoin: Who owns it, who mines it, who’s breaking the law by rglover on Friday October 15, 2021 @06:24PM (#28883842)
Not the lightning network, which would be the primary network used for day-to-day transactions: https://lightning.network/

> Scalability. Capable of millions to billions of transactions per second across the network. Capacity blows away legacy payment rails by many orders of magnitude. Attaching payment per action/click is now possible without custodians.

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