[eudora]

I'm not going to pretend to understand the validity of your claims frankly because I don't.

I've seen some discussion of supposed possible race conditions on LN, apparently the gossip protocol is temporarily being used for routing and means there is no problem? (I'm a layman obviously.) But people seem to think that that will carry LN for long enough until an improved routing protocol is developed.

Do you have a source for your claims? I'm just seeing your hypothetical/theoretical scenario predicting doom, while there's dozens of people in multiple organisations working on lightning, and you're claiming they're all corruptly serving an "oligarchy" so it's your word against theirs.

Also afaik there's thousands of nodes on the live lightning network and it's essentially working.

If it was true that anyone with a basic understanding of race conditions can see the network won't work, then surely LN wouldn't get off the ground or would be being savaged on a hundred people's blog posts or what have you, and it's not.

So basically, I don't know if you're right but I'm finding it doubtful.

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  Sealioning (also spelled sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a 
  type of trolling or harassment which consists of 
  pursuing people with persistent requests for evidence or 
  repeated questions, while maintaining a pretense of 
  civility. The troll pretends ignorance and 
  feigns politeness, so that if the target is provoked 
  into making an angry response, the troll can then act as 
  the aggrieved party.

You're asking for a source when the flaw has clearly been spelled out for you.

Please feel free to prove my claims wrong, with any verifiable example.

[eudora]

That's ridiculous.

You can't make baseless claims then call it abuse if someone asks for evidence.

My evidence, if you like, are all the people using live Bitcoins on LN right now, and the dozens of exceptionally bright people working full time on it.

Logically it follows it probably isn't fundamentally flawed if these things are happening.

Also, by your definition, you're "sea-lioning" too, by asking for evidencw.

What an absurd way to stop people questioning your claims.

If I was like you I'd just say you're lying and then when you dispute that, I'll claim you're abusing me.