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by tCfD 3030 days ago
What happens to the engine trustless selling point of bitcoin when the only plausible scalability solutions entail reintroducing trusted third parties?
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The great thing about lightning is that it doesn't introduce trusted third parties: it only requires that nodes have commited funds.
You don't need to trust the third parties, that's the point.