mrblockchain
Re:Lightning Network Skepticism
on Saturday December 26, 2015 @02:50AM (#10793614)
How do you know? There isn't even a working prototype yet!
Re:Lightning Network Skepticism
on Saturday December 26, 2015 @02:45AM (#10793600)
When is the white paper going to be finished?
What's the business model for the company you are forming around LN?
Re:Lightning Network Skepticism
on Saturday December 26, 2015 @02:41AM (#10793592)
So if Lightning is better than Bitcoin at being a P2P payments network, why not just build an altcoin?!
Re:Lightning Network Skepticism
on Saturday December 26, 2015 @02:34AM (#10793580)
> The paper never refers to hubs, the necessity of a handful of entities routing payments a-la Visa has never been part of the design.
Yet in person the opposite is true. I've heard Tadje refer to large hubs plenty of times.
As for your comment about CS understanding, curious to know, what are your credentials? What's your background in algorithms, networks and software engineering? There is no biographical data on the Lightning network website.