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legendary
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July 26, 2023, 11:34:08 AM
core think 4mb of data bloat is fine. so its not about your buzzwords of "big block"

its how the block data gets to be used and who gets to use it. EG their "discount" is not actually discount.. if you read the code (technical things you keep not doing) you will realise that its legacy *4 .... not segwit /4

its YOU that does not reference code or use technicals for your explanations you are the one using social recited buzzwords of idiots.

and if you dont think they want their subnetworks to be used more then bitcoin network.. observe this topic from the start. notice this topics point is to promote their subnetwork
lightning is not a open community build network. its all made majority by the same core devs that were part of the same masterplan that came from sponsorship from the same corporations. and them corporations will want their ROI back

it seems you ignore evidence and just want to repeat whatever your mentor tells you to say even if what he says is nonsense and is not backed by easily researchable evidence

give yourself a chance and break from your mentors words and for once observe the code, do some research and for once make up your mind for yourself. dont sound like a parrot of an idiot becasue it just makes people call you an idiot
legendary
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July 26, 2023, 10:18:49 AM
If the Lightning Network is as bad as you say, then OK. But that doesn't signify that the developers should stop working on it or users should stop using it just because of your trolling-opinion.

Honestly, if I were a dev and having doubts or second thoughts about the work I was doing on LN, but then I read one of franky1's posts, I'd redouble my efforts and work that much harder just to spite him.  That's the effect he has on people.  He thinks he's being demotivational, but he's doing the complete opposite.  If he had any real faith in what he's claiming, he'd just shut up and let it happen.  But he sees LN development continuing and more in the pipeline to come, so he feels compelled to keep sniping from the sidelines.  Palpable butthurt is palpable.  No one likes his worthless ideas, so he has to lash out at the ideas people do like.  Petty and tragic in equal measure.


Why would any dev read franky1's posts? They're laughable and full of disinformation. I know there are criticisms directed to the Lightning Network, but there probably isn't another team of developers that's doing as great of a job. Compare Lightning developers to the developers of something like BCash. It's not close in my opinion and franky1 comes in the forum and gaslights us that we are wrong? Haha.

you seem obsessed that the debate is core or bcash...


No frankandbeans, it's you. You're the one obsessed about making the Core developers look "evil" by accusing them that they're keeping the blocks small so they could promote their, what is it? Their "alt-subnetwork"? Without taking into account about the technical debate that they've presented. But once presented with a technical debate, the big blockers start to use big walls of texts made up of ad hominem, straw man fallacies, and disinformation to confuse and gaslight everyone.

 Cool
legendary
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July 23, 2023, 02:15:36 PM
there are other devs and dev groups, yet you only want core.. think how centralist you are reciting by only wanting core to do everything and then kissing their ass whilst waiting years for them to achieve their unmet promises for what the community wants and needs
Look, in all that horseshit you've been writing and repeating years now, I think I'll have to admit that part of your message is true. I'm going to speak for myself, maybe I'm the problem, but I'm not following anything beyond Core's work. I don't find the time, nor do I want, to check what other cryptocurrency groups / bitcoin forks' developers are suggesting. Maybe it's due to the fact that I'm a little biased that their goal isn't long-term, or that they're consisted of less experienced people. (For instance, I haven't read a BCash proposal besides their block size increase, for like... ever)

Or maybe it's just the intentions that discourage me. For example, I can't buy the whole BSV thing, even if they do say some things that aren't that flawed and debunked, simply because their development team is owned by a pathetic liar (and thus cannot be trusted). One thing that I also like about the Bitcoin Core team, is that for every change that happens, there is an either pull request with controversial discussion, or some StackExchange post that gives the reasoning behind it.
legendary
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July 23, 2023, 07:00:43 AM
see the pattern
when LN devs are literally screaming it in your face
'bitcoin onchain fees expensive'
'atomic swap to altcoin'

LN does not make bitcoin viable for average joe. it makes average joe viable for altcoins, while custodians take the btc

Bringing this quote from 2021 back.  It's been a full two years and franky1 is still wrong.  There's no mass-exodus from BTC to altcoins.  The only thing to be seen here is franky1's head full of delusions that he calls "scenarios" in a lame attempt to make his fantasies sound more credible.  If people were going to dump BTC for altcoins, they would have done it by now.  It doesn't matter if BTC is more expensive than altcoins.  He can't seem to comprehend that people are willing to pay more to use something with utility.  Cheaper is not always better.  Cheaper is often a trade-off.  A compromise.  You have to give up something in exchange for cheaper. 

He would make those compromises at the base protocol level.  Cheapen everything for everyone whether they like it or not, weaken their security whether they like it or not.  But sensible devs have built cheaper on layer 2, so users get the choice as to whether they want to give up some security in exchange for getting things cheaper.  He calls those trade-offs and compromises "flaws", but they're simply conscious decisions people are free to make if they choose to. 

It's beyond clear that franky1 would love to stamp out all forms of choice.  He cannot stand it.  How very dare people do what they want without his input and approval.   Roll Eyes 

Sociopath.
legendary
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July 23, 2023, 02:57:53 AM
If the Lightning Network is as bad as you say, then OK. But that doesn't signify that the developers should stop working on it or users should stop using it just because of your trolling-opinion.

Honestly, if I were a dev and having doubts or second thoughts about the work I was doing on LN, but then I read one of franky1's posts, I'd redouble my efforts and work that much harder just to spite him.  That's the effect he has on people.  He thinks he's being demotivational, but he's doing the complete opposite.  If he had any real faith in what he's claiming, he'd just shut up and let it happen.  But he sees LN development continuing and more in the pipeline to come, so he feels compelled to keep sniping from the sidelines.  Palpable butthurt is palpable.  No one likes his worthless ideas, so he has to lash out at the ideas people do like.  Petty and tragic in equal measure.


Why would any dev read franky1's posts? They're laughable and full of disinformation. I know there are criticisms directed to the Lightning Network, but there probably isn't another team of developers that's doing as great of a job. Compare Lightning developers to the developers of something like BCash. It's not close in my opinion and franky1 comes in the forum and gaslights us that we are wrong? Haha.

you seem obsessed that the debate is core or bcash... you mentor is the one gaslighting you with the obvious chants you then recite verbatim from him

all your mentor wants is for anyone not ass kissing core to shut up and f**k off. he thinks core is god.. and thinks there is only a choice of core of GTFO to bcash. not realising that other devs could help with bitcoin or other options .. you have been gaslit by him by your own chants admission when you recite his mindset so precisely

think for yourself for once. there are other devs and dev groups, yet you only want core.. think how centralist you are reciting by only wanting core to do everything and then kissing their ass whilst waiting years for them to achieve their unmet promises for what the community wants and needs

as for redoubling their efforts.. well they are doing that. they are making more flaws to be abused. but your mentor calls them 'features' when the devs make their prefered subnetwork require watchtower custodians and also not require locked funding to open channels to give users unbacked inbound balance. (as their work around(facepalm))

but you wont open your eyes and observe the flaws. you will instead be eyes closed and closed minded about the actual (lack of) activity (lack of) utility. and instead just want to promote devs that cant even do things they promise

the fastest way to kill a projects development is to let the devs of any project not fulfil the projects needs that aid the community.. and instead just make crap that aids some corporation to make the project into the same crap as the thing the project was suppose to hedge against and be different to

and one last observation for you to think about for a while..
when you finally realise the similarity between the functionality of liquid+LN compared to many CBDC where you have been saying how CBDC is bad. you will then have the moment of realisation to why blockstream,brink,chaincodelab(main core devs) done all their efforts in conjunction with hyperledger project to produce the crap you admire.
look forward to that eye opening event once you stop robot reciting your mentors pitches
sr. member
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July 22, 2023, 11:00:06 AM
Lightning Network capacity at highest levels ever.
source.
legendary
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July 22, 2023, 08:16:20 AM
If the Lightning Network is as bad as you say, then OK. But that doesn't signify that the developers should stop working on it or users should stop using it just because of your trolling-opinion.

Honestly, if I were a dev and having doubts or second thoughts about the work I was doing on LN, but then I read one of franky1's posts, I'd redouble my efforts and work that much harder just to spite him.  That's the effect he has on people.  He thinks he's being demotivational, but he's doing the complete opposite.  If he had any real faith in what he's claiming, he'd just shut up and let it happen.  But he sees LN development continuing and more in the pipeline to come, so he feels compelled to keep sniping from the sidelines.  Palpable butthurt is palpable.  No one likes his worthless ideas, so he has to lash out at the ideas people do like.  Petty and tragic in equal measure.


Why would any dev read franky1's posts? They're laughable and full of disinformation. I know there are criticisms directed to the Lightning Network, but there probably isn't another team of developers that's doing as great of a job. Compare Lightning developers to the developers of something like BCash. It's not close in my opinion and franky1 comes in the forum and gaslights us that we are wrong? Haha.
legendary
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July 22, 2023, 06:52:34 AM
If the Lightning Network is as bad as you say, then OK. But that doesn't signify that the developers should stop working on it or users should stop using it just because of your trolling-opinion.

Honestly, if I were a dev and having doubts or second thoughts about the work I was doing on LN, but then I read one of franky1's posts, I'd redouble my efforts and work that much harder just to spite him.  That's the effect he has on people.  He thinks he's being demotivational, but he's doing the complete opposite.  If he had any real faith in what he's claiming, he'd just shut up and let it happen.  But he sees LN development continuing and more in the pipeline to come, so he feels compelled to keep sniping from the sidelines.  Palpable butthurt is palpable.  No one likes his worthless ideas, so he has to lash out at the ideas people do like.  Petty and tragic in equal measure.
legendary
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July 22, 2023, 04:38:59 AM
funny part is that more people use CEX internal reserve swaps between services and stable coin by a magnitude of 1,000,000x compared to LN
the reason people avoid the bitcoin network first and then use CEX second and then use ln 7th (other bridge subnetworks exist with more liquidity 3-6) is due primarily due to high onchain fees.

yep people avoid the bitcoin network due to fee's not due to (lack of)successes of other flawed systems

funny part is instead of fixing flaws to make it better they just want to promote any hype they can find
especially when if you really observe you will find the initiation of LN was inspired by the hyperledger project(institutions gathering to prototype CBDC, asking bitcoin devs to develop and sandbox test CDBC methodology on subnetworks)

so ofcourse a FED is going to suck eggs about something they pushed for years prior. as its the basis of their own project


Yes yes, and the way to fix those flaws to make onchain fees lower is simply to hard fork to bigger blocks like BCash, right, right? Noted.

It has been debated here in the forum before. It will be challenging for users to run Lightning nodes altruistically forever. There will be opportunity costs because Bitcoin = a form of capital. There must be enough incentives for all that capital to be locked in those channels. If not, then the result is simple. They leave.

you really are not learning much are you. you are reading buzzwords and snippets and repeating them like a robot. but you are not actually learning or understanding..


And what was that I'm not learning much? What "buzzwords" am I reading and keep repeating but I don't actually understand? Are you telling me that the Core developers are giving out false information and they're scammers? That they shouldn't be the rightful stewards of the network? We've heard it all before, frankyandbeans. But it's time to move on. You probably should go to a BCash forum and talk about your issues there. After two Bitcoin Core developers gave you two negative trust ratings, why should people, especially newbies, listen to you? You're a troll.

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 Roll Eyes

If the Lightning Network is as bad as you say, then OK. But that doesn't signify that the developers should stop working on it or users should stop using it just because of your trolling-opinion. Plus what's very great about it is it never needed anyone's permission to be built on Bitcoin.
legendary
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July 21, 2023, 03:34:07 PM
observe the flaws, observe the avoidances, observe the lack of interest.

Observe the impotent man standing in the path of progress, pretending he can stop it.   Roll Eyes


you think someone's sperm count has something to do with the content of their posts..
seems you need to research biology and technology to learn how they are different

well i have a family. im guessing your own lack of sperm count must be your lame excuse for preferring to have non consensual mindset. which you admit to having in previous posts

as for path of progress,,, your mindset is 'wait patiently', 'dont ask the devs do do things' so your path is not progress

im guessing windfury asked his forum daddy to come defend him, as always your mentorship of windfury only hurts him more

and as for the subnetworks i speak of no im not talking about liquid. there are more. if you can only think of blockstream managed devs. thats your fault

oh and if you look at LN stats the "average LNer" is not a random user. they are average and majority services/corporations.. yet when one disappears LN liquidity drops dramatically. showing that most of LN is not even used by average joe, its instead just sibyl nodes of some services cold stash that have little to no active activity.. they are just sat there hoarding reserves in locks, not using funds, just to push up the stats to fake utility

other subnetwork bridges are majority decentralised individuals..
and this is why so many services are starting to drop out of LN and why crybabies are screaming to try to get other services to join to offset the loss. forgetting about the initial purpose of decentralised individual utility. and caring instead for just trying to fake stats by garnering businesses to lock up their cold stashes

but you wont see this until you start observing things
legendary
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July 21, 2023, 02:39:44 PM
observe the flaws, observe the avoidances, observe the lack of interest.

Observe the impotent man standing in the path of progress, pretending he can stop it.   Roll Eyes


one last observation you need to make
core devs were paid hundreds of millions of dollar to develop features for corporations.

Observe the pseudo-dev who claims they write code and then refuses to share it with anyone and acts like he's in a position to critique the code of others.  *cough*HYPOCRITE*cough*


right now other subnetwork bridges and CEX systems have more liquidity than LN

Because the organisations who use other layer-2 systems like Liquid are largely custodians for the funds of others.  They have lots of BTC and sometimes need to move large sums of BTC.  Hence, their network has lots of liquidity.  The average LN user, individually, doesn't have that kind of coin to throw around.  Hence less liquidity.

Funnily enough, all the traditional banks out there. who are also custodians, also have more liquidity in the networks they use versus anything the average household might use.  What's your point?  

And more to the point, will you ever make a valid one?  Shitweasel.  


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you think someone's sperm count has something to do with the content of their posts..

No, that would be their brain cell count.  Yours is clearly very low.

newbie
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July 21, 2023, 01:05:56 PM
I was reading notes from the 2023 LN Summit at https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-July/004014.html

They talk about version 3 transactions. Can anyone tell me the timeline for this to happen? This is only for Lightning transactions or are all transactions going to be version 3?
legendary
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July 21, 2023, 11:38:26 AM
funny part is that more people use CEX internal reserve swaps between services and stable coin by a magnitude of 1,000,000x compared to LN
the reason people avoid the bitcoin network first and then use CEX second and then use ln 7th (other bridge subnetworks exist with more liquidity 3-6) is due primarily due to high onchain fees.

yep people avoid the bitcoin network due to fee's not due to (lack of)successes of other flawed systems

funny part is instead of fixing flaws to make it better they just want to promote any hype they can find
especially when if you really observe you will find the initiation of LN was inspired by the hyperledger project(institutions gathering to prototype CBDC, asking bitcoin devs to develop and sandbox test CDBC methodology on subnetworks)

so ofcourse a FED is going to suck eggs about something they pushed for years prior. as its the basis of their own project


Yes yes, and the way to fix those flaws to make onchain fees lower is simply to hard fork to bigger blocks like BCash, right, right? Noted.

It has been debated here in the forum before. It will be challenging for users to run Lightning nodes altruistically forever. There will be opportunity costs because Bitcoin = a form of capital. There must be enough incentives for all that capital to be locked in those channels. If not, then the result is simple. They leave.

you really are not learning much are you. you are reading buzzwords and snippets and repeating them like a robot. but you are not actually learning or understanding..

with the latest ordinals junkweight bloat. and lengthy 'smart contracts' its proof core dont care about lean transactions to make efficient use of the blockspace. as is their method to miscount byte worth to fake the fee market again shows they promote making transaction 4x old costs instead of their promised discount(time you read some code and not troll blogs)

firstly take this premiss
imagine bitcoin as bank wire transfers. and imagine LN as paypal
if bank wire transfers cost $10 per payment but paypal offers(sometimes a false promise) payments at $0.02 but has some bugs.. yea sure you might get 1% of offboarding to paypal. but it still requires people to pay $10 just to get in and out of paypal. so those trapped in paypal dont want to leave it and so they get stuck promoting it hoping things will change.. but not admitting what need to change.. but you will then get 95% using other payment services(venmo, credit unions, virtual visa).. meaning even paypal doesnt win or get the attention it wants. and then you get the left overs trying to get banks wire transfers to do something about their charges and payment delays instead of using the charges and payment delays as the feature to promote their commercial other services

right now other subnetwork bridges and CEX systems have more liquidity than LN. and as someone else told you but i think you have yet to let it truly settle in your mind. LN's altruism is temporary.. so even the cheap fee on LN wont last
so LN with its bug, flaws, liquidity issues and bottlenecks all show a sign that when other subnetworks have garnered more liquidity. LN has lost the race.  
no point waiting another 6 years to fix their bugs. they had their chance.. probably best to start again from scratch with a better or more useful subnetwork or get the core devs to once again concentrate on bitcoin and evolve bitcoin instead of trying to get people thrown off the network via various methods

oh and as for binance..
they have not opened up upto 60m channels so that each of their customers can withdraw and close channel to get their funds. binance has just opened large hub channels with other services so they can arbitrage locked reserves between services..

binance has not caused any significant progress to any LN stats, infact LN liquidity stats have decreased in the last fortnight
other subnetwork bridges has grown more in the last 2 years* than LN has ever grown in any measurement of any allotment of any 2 year period of its 6 years of life
*(many subnetworks are under 2 years old and more successful than LN)

even nigeria and el salvador tried LN. both decided to drop LN as a payment rail for their wallets and went for CEX services to control reserves instead.

observe the flaws, observe the avoidances, observe the lack of interest. then ... ask for something better
if you just want to go with the flow and hope things will go better if you just wait another 6 years. then you are not helping at all. core devs wanted the job of making bitcoin better so push them to do so. dont just kiss their ass and call them god and tell them they are doing a great job of making users use other systems
if after 6 years they cant fix LN then get them to put their time back into making bitcoin better or start afresh on a new project that can actually do the promises they proposed many years ago

one last observation you need to make
core devs were paid hundreds of millions of dollar to develop features for corporations. this was not altruist donations. this was corporate contracts of investments of future returns. and those corporations want return on investment. which yes includes getting middlemen fees(routing) back from subnetwork payments. so expect fee's to go up on subnetworks when its time businesses want their ROI
legendary
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July 21, 2023, 11:05:36 AM

Has Channel CoinJoins already been added and implemented in Lightning? I read about it two years ago, but had since heard nothing about it.

If it's added, then Lightning is still not the first choice protocol for regular Bitcoin users to "mix" their coins. Many users choose to convert to Monero or use CoinJoin and mixers. Plus it's marketed that "fast, cheap transactions" is still the main value proposition for Lightning, not privacy.


You may be referring to this article: https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/lightning-coinjoins/
Splicing and rebalancing seem quite useful and can definitely add some extra privacy on top.


I first read about Splicing and CoinJoin in this site, https://lightningprivacy.com/en/channel-coinjoins

But the information in there is limited. We need more ELI-5 kind of write ups.

the PhoenixWallet which allows you to store your Bitcoin on the lightning network itself, has implemented "splicing" in beta and other great features!


👍

Achieving base layer privacy through Lightning might illustrate that's the perfect conjunction between onchain and offchain.
sr. member
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July 21, 2023, 09:09:57 AM
Binance successfully integrated Bitcoin's Lightning Network, enabling faster and more cost-effective BTC transactions. ⚡️🚀 Embracing the power of Lightning Network enhances the efficiency and scalability of Bitcoin transactions on the Binance platform. #Bitcoin    #LightningNetwork
https://twitter.com/Volcano_Energy/status/1681681037758197761?t=q8giFFqTsdtdonfNkmhBTA&s=19

Beautiful visual representation of the #LightningNetwork

hero member
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July 21, 2023, 07:44:10 AM
Has Channel CoinJoins already been added and implemented in Lightning? I read about it two years ago, but had since heard nothing about it.

If it's added, then Lightning is still not the first choice protocol for regular Bitcoin users to "mix" their coins. Many users choose to convert to Monero or use CoinJoin and mixers. Plus it's marketed that "fast, cheap transactions" is still the main value proposition for Lightning, not privacy.
You may be referring to this article: https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/lightning-coinjoins/
Splicing and rebalancing seem quite useful and can definitely add some extra privacy on top.

As explained here, Lightning is not perfectly private as of right now.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/state-of-bitcoin-lightning-network-privacy

I'm not sure about the state of splicing in July 2023, though.
Core Lightning has an open Pull Request for it, although it seems like other implementations just started supporting it:

the PhoenixWallet which allows you to store your Bitcoin on the lightning network itself, has implemented "splicing" in beta and other great features!
legendary
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July 21, 2023, 02:02:36 AM
funny part is that more people use CEX internal reserve swaps between services and stable coin by a magnitude of 1,000,000x compared to LN
the reason people avoid the bitcoin network first and then use CEX second and then use ln 7th (other bridge subnetworks exist with more liquidity 3-6) is due primarily due to high onchain fees.

yep people avoid the bitcoin network due to fee's not due to (lack of)successes of other flawed systems

funny part is instead of fixing flaws to make it better they just want to promote any hype they can find
especially when if you really observe you will find the initiation of LN was inspired by the hyperledger project(institutions gathering to prototype CBDC, asking bitcoin devs to develop and sandbox test CDBC methodology on subnetworks)

so ofcourse a FED is going to suck eggs about something they pushed for years prior. as its the basis of their own project


Yes yes, and the way to fix those flaws to make onchain fees lower is simply to hard fork to bigger blocks like BCash, right, right? Noted.

Here's a write up for everyone, especially newbies, to read, https://medium.com/hackernoon/thats-not-bitcoin-that-s-bcash-f730f0d0a837

OK, let's move on.

SBW Wond be supporting LN anymore.
Motivations are interesting.




It has been debated here in the forum before. It will be challenging for users to run Lightning nodes altruistically forever. There will be opportunity costs because Bitcoin = a form of capital. There must be enough incentives for all that capital to be locked in those channels. If not, then the result is simple. They leave.
legendary
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July 20, 2023, 01:31:49 AM
SBW Wond be supporting LN anymore.
Motivations are interesting.




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What is this post for?
legendary
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July 19, 2023, 06:09:15 PM
funny part is that more people use CEX internal reserve swaps between services and stable coin by a magnitude of 1,000,000x compared to LN
the reason people avoid the bitcoin network first and then use CEX second and then use ln 7th (other bridge subnetworks exist with more liquidity 3-6) is due primarily due to high onchain fees.

yep people avoid the bitcoin network due to fee's not due to (lack of)successes of other flawed systems

funny part is instead of fixing flaws to make it better they just want to promote any hype they can find
especially when if you really observe you will find the initiation of LN was inspired by the hyperledger project(institutions gathering to prototype CBDC, asking bitcoin devs to develop and sandbox test CDBC methodology on subnetworks)

so ofcourse a FED is going to suck eggs about something they pushed for years prior. as its the basis of their own project
legendary
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July 19, 2023, 05:57:37 PM
You know you are on something when the Cleveland FED publishes a paper about Lightning Network:




The Lightning Network: Turning Bitcoin into Money

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The Lightning Network (LN) is a means of netting Bitcoin payments outside the blockchain. We find a significant association between LN adoption and reduced blockchain congestion, suggesting that the LN has helped improve the efficiency of Bitcoin as a means of payment. This improvement cannot be explained by other factors, such as changes in demand or the adoption of SegWit. We find mixed evidence on whether increased centralization in the Lightning Network has improved its efficiency. Our findings have implications for the future of cryptocurrencies as a means of payment and their environmental footprint.
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