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Re:Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury... by jgilias on Monday July 28, 2025 @04:41PM (#44715345)
Right, yeah, but isn’t the network large enough by now where a transaction would be routed around the censoring nodes regardless? Much like how there are censoring miners on the mainnet, but the censored transactions still go through due to not everyone doing the censoring?
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Re:Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury... by yieldcrv on Monday July 28, 2025 @08:09PM (#44717413)
Yes, they can route around. I think the number of people needing to open channels to deal with this, undermines the utility and scaling point of the Lightning network if it ever takes off. L1 will be so bogged down with channels opening and closing.
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