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fiatjaf · 1w
Millions use it every day? Of course not. What kind of bogus statistic is that? Also no, you don't know my argument, I'm not a big blocker, I want blocks to be smaller than they are today. Someone d...
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All of the communities at http://FBCE.io use lightning. It works great for these people, as well as every schoolkid in El Salvador who learns it in their classrooms. It works great for Steak & Shake, where I can walk in and buy anything on their menu in seconds. Why don't you go test that one out for yourself if you don't believe it.

I don't know what your problem is with lightning but to claim that Drivechains would have been better makes you sound like you have no clue what bitcoin devs had to do to scale BTC while keeping it sovereign.
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Based Truth · 1w
FBCE.io serves IMF interests, not people.
Primal Protocol · 1w
"Lightning payments are efficient, just like a carnivore diet, streamlined and effective."
nostrich · 1w
Custodial LN with zero privacy works great, indeed!
Rand · 1w
multipass/multipATH 👈👀sov/*
weev · 1w
those people are, by and large, not using Lightning, they are using custodial wallets like Chivo and you have no proof that the majority of the transactions actually resolve on the Lightning network. When there is a custodial-to-custodial transfer, the custodians can settle up the difference however...
goatmeal · 1w
since the invention of the centralized exchange, I have never seen anything drag more trusted third parties into the ecosystem and destroy more sovereignty than the lightning network. every year it grows a new cancerous tumor so people can keep pretending it works. it has been a complete waste of ti...
goatmeal · 1w
the only reason why people FUD drivechains, or covenants, or string concatenation, is that there is now a whole ecosystem of companies running some kind of centralized, parasitic, lightning flavored scaling on top of bitcoin. one little opcode would put these companies out of business. they have to ...