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Luke · 1w
Lol, no. The problems you think lightning has are way overstated. If you think it's parasitic in nature, then you are calling me a parasite for collecting fees on my node. I guess you're not big int...
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It is kind of parasitic in that way too since transactions happening on lightning don't pay miners transaction fees to secure the blockchain. If most transactions are supposed to happen on lightning in the future, and block subsidy is going away, who is going to pay miners?

Lightning works for now, but a Drivechain future seems more symbiotic and sustainable.
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goatmeal · 5d
they literally believe that the price of bitcoin will just keep doubling forever, or people (banks obviously) will pay huge fees to open and maintain lightning channels. that's their plan, in both the core and knots camps. they are both the same. and they get extremely angry at anyone who doesn't wa...
Luke · 5d
"who is going to pay miners? " I've literally heard that question every single market low. 1 out of every 4 years... And the other three years are all record profits for miners, even when mempools are empty. Also, with AI they have fallbacks for their data centers during unprofitable months too, no...