Damus
weev · 8w
Who cares? People using LN in the real world regularly report 10-25% failure rates. This is not serious shit. At a slavic moneychanger that means people are screaming and threatening violence because ...
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i don't disagree, but i'm an engineer who likes understanding failure modes. routing failures are an under appreciated problem. i have liquidity, you have liquidity, we're both connected to our nodes... still can't pay

the whole-network failure mode is more likely with non-bitcoin currencies though. probably less of a problem if you aren't holding it long term
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Nuh · 1w
An engineer should also note that any L2 that behaves like a BFT of dozens of operators is fundamentally more reliable than a P2P network trying to do to money what ISPs did to internet packets, ignoring that isps don't need a balanced egress and ingress. A Drivechain where miners hire and fire 50 ...