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by JumpCrisscross 3064 days ago
> I was talking about Lightning Network nodes, not Bitcoin

The latter being useless as a currency, per the article, without the former.

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I fail to see how this moves the discussion forward, we're talking about how effective LN could be regarding helping with scaling.

Also, note the core idea of LN (updatable non-broadcasted Bitcoin TXs with incentive-based security and eventual broadcast to the blockchain network) is a powerful idea and as we explore this scheme and more engineers get accustomed I am sure we will see even more exciting things.