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by rawtxapp 1821 days ago
PoS is far from being perfect and has it's own sets of issues (ex: rich gets richer, hackers that end up getting large sums of coin now also have control over the network, custodians also have large control, etc).

> Forget Bitcoin, Lightning Network was announced years ago and it's still far from being used in production.

It is being used in production with growing adoption (1ml.com) and it is what they are using in El Salvador.

> Since developers of Bitcoin are extremely conservative and censoring

It's a decentralized network where nobody controls it, developers can't push changes willy-nilly. Bitcoin isn't trying to be everything to everyone and that's ok. You can have other layers and projects which enable these fast moving ideas (most of them are going to be deprecated sooner or later because they'll turn out to be bad ideas anyways). Once these projects prove it works, Bitcoin can incorporate them. Most of these projects that are faster sacrifice decentralization to a certain extent and if we didn't care about decentralization, then why even bother with crypto, we already have Paypal/Visa/etc.