I havent seen any evidence that LN will be a permissioned ledger, are you sure that LN will have a trust element to it?
Because in that case it sounds very very bad. I dont want it.
LN uses mutisigs..
its not the legacy way of you make a transaction, you sign and you send..
its a joint party thing. like a joint bank account. requiring 2 signatures.
you cant move it without someone else.. = their permission required
But as I have heard about it, it was marketed as something decentralized. Explain to me.
its falsely promoted as 'independant multisigs'
imagine we had 5 people A,B,C,D,E
A and B connect up as a multisig..
B does more business, B also connect to C
C also connect to D
Dd also connect to E
A->B
B->C
C->D
D->E
for someone to get from A-E they need to pass through B, C, D because A doesnt directly connect to E
^this above is the promotion people hop their funds around, .. and take a fee per hop if they are the middleman^
here is the problem and blockstreams known chain of events to gain them hub dominance to repay their investors
for someone to get from A-E they need to pass through B, C, D because A doesnt directly connect to E
so A needs to pay B. and
A needs to pay C and
A needs to pay D to ensure A reaches E
costing A 4 hops
so what A does instead is when the contract times out. they avoid the hop method and find hub X which has multiple data streams to everyone.
A - X - E
/ | \
B C D
instead of
A-B-C-D-E
now A can travel to E just by paying X twice
a-> X
X-> e
much cheaper than 4 fee's of the hop concept
a->b
b->c
c->d
d->e
blockstream want to 'default' fee hop at, lets say y*100 and then offer hub at y*10 thus instead of costing a 500y using hops.. it would only cost 20y using hub
you will probably see that they twist the hop= y*100 because hops are less common so cost are higher.. many node users wanting income would applaud them for rewarding them more.. but that reward is a actually a twisted sales pitch of a punishment to make hops expensive and undesirable...
now blocktream becomes the hub and gets all the fee's to repay back the $90m investment. which they are getting desperate need to release ln before investors make demand..