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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by Quindecillion on Friday April 14, 2023 @09:27AM (#35569348)
> the network was being guided by a company set on limiting bitcoin throughout while building the L2 lightning network to solve that problem outside the bitcoin protocol

What company are you talking about exactly?

> When you say crypto here do you mean cryptography, cryptocurrencies, or a subset of smart contract based projects?

Now you're just being obtuse. I'm obviously not talking about cryptography.

> All currencies, whether bitcoin, shitcoins, or USD are ultimately pump and dump schemes the all meet the technical definition of a Ponzi scheme

Yes, money is based mostly on trust. I trust Bitcoin's monetary policy more than any other, and for good reason.

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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by _heimdall on Friday April 14, 2023 @10:40PM (#35577174)
> What company are you talking about exactly?

Lightning Labs. The founders were heavily involved in the debate over increasing block size that led to a hard fork. I have no idea if they honestly thought the network Das better off with a smaller block size, but after successfully fending off a block size increase they created a company to develop a lightning network implementation.

> Now you're just being obtuse. I'm obviously not talking about cryptography.

That doesn't actually answer the question. Are you referring to cryptocurrencies as a whole lot a subset of smart contract protocols?

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