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by sanswork 3338 days ago
What patents do they have on lightning network? Also how would they make money on the transactions on the lightning network?
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Regarding patents:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Satoshi_N_/status/855852865151172...

Regard LN, there are fees to make transactions, so whoever is facilitating the transactions will make money.

What specific claims of those patents are being infringed? It looks like that person just posted every crypto patent then could find. Also which of those patents do blockstream own? I looked at a few random ones and none were owned by them.

LN fees are optional and if blockstream wanted to charge them for facilitating transactions they would have to provide a service to make it worth while our the transactions would just route around them.