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[–] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

And twenty bucks to the Chinese miners as a “transaction free”.

Lightning network, taproot, all that shit, just paper over the fact that Bitcoin cannot, by design, handle enough transaction volume to become a general purpose currency without reinventing a lot of mostly centralized payment infrastructure.

[–] Bubbey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Lightning is generally pretty stupid

[–] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You can commit money to a payment channel with a third party to create a private ledger so the third party can perform payments in your name to someone in using their shared channel on their private ledger.

Motherfucker, that’s just a bank and two bank accounts with extra steps.

It's a catch 22 solution. It only allows bitcoin to scale if hardly anyone settles back on the bitcoin network.