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by paulryanrogers 1998 days ago
Doesn't that mitigation introduce more centralization though?
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_0ffh 1998 days ago
Not that I'm aware of. The lightning network seems to be a fairly decentral affair to me. Still I suggest you make up your own mind by perusing https://lightning.network/
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paulryanrogers 1998 days ago
So the arbitration still occurs on the blockchain? Seems like maintaining all these different ledgers adds a lot of complexity when a better solution may be a non-Bitcoin, or even non-blockchain DB.
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_0ffh 1997 days ago
Sure. But that's still potentially multiple orders of magnitude fewer on-chain transactions than without. I'd call that a quite efficient mitigation.
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