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by lowkey 1846 days ago
Yes it is similar to the comparison between a single driver vehicle vs 50 people in a bus except Lightning can scale massively - to Visa/MasterCard country-level scale vs 6-7 tx/sec on Bitcoin layer 1.

If you can process 1 million times as many transactions per mined block that make it an innovative scaling solution - not sure I understand the lipstick analogy. Care to elaborate?