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by colordrops 3341 days ago
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.

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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.