hasherstacker

AskSN

How do you say FREEDOM in your language/country?

tech

Just tested Bitchat

bitcoin

Bitcoin sent over Bluetooth

KYC isn't Know Your Customer

The Rise Of Network States

Bitcoin Transaction Fee Chart

Trump Claims Bitcoin Eases US Dollar Pressure — Lightning.news

Bitcoin’s first Batman? Peter McCormack plans to buy his own police force

mostly_harmless

As streaming services chase profitability, kids’ content is king

nostr

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The Invisible Pieces of Satoshi

Beware of the Crypto Noise

Bitcoin doesn't fix the world. It doesn't fix the world.

lightning

liquiditystr LSP hacked

It's very unfortunate. Sorry for the loss.
> To be honest, I think that's the part that hurts more than the funds I lost. Others trusted the project enough to give it a try but ultimately got burned by something I built. I'm gutted over the fact that some node runners have lost some of their hard earned sats, and I'm truly very sorry this happened.

Once again, truly sorry. 

bitcoin_beginners

No stable electricity or internet? You can still run a Bitcoin node!

BTCLNAT

I'm not a Spanish speaker. But I personally like the idea of running a node off-grid. 

BooksAndArticles

COMING SOON: Stacker News Fiction Month (with a 200k sats prize fund)

TotallyHumanWriter

Interesting! Looking forward to reading more.

Maximum Sats you will hold in an LN custodial wallet?

Coinsreporter

Maximum would be 21k sats. But normally I keep less than 10k in a Lightning Network account. With the self-custodial wallets already working perfectly fine, I wouldn't let custodial service hold more sats than I can afford to lose.

When Will We No Longer Need the L2?

They still are fast. But with LN, they're lightning-fast. The fastest 

The 10 minutes was fast, as compared to bank settlements. Especially cross-border transactions. 

Bitcoin Core Now Want To Freeze Satoshi Coins In Pretext Of Quantum Computing

piecoverBTC

I knew this was coming. But didn't know it would be the Core Developers to act right now.

When Will We No Longer Need the L2?


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Can Bitcoin ever return to a time when it didn't need a second layer?

In its early days, transactions were fast, cheap, and simple—no need for complex workarounds. But was that simplicity sustainable? As adoption increased and the user base expanded globally, did the Bitcoin base layer reveal its natural limits?

Is network congestion now a permanent feature of Bitcoin’s success?

Today, high demand for limited block space leads to competition, high fees, and slower confirmation times. Can we deny that this is the cost of decentralization and security? If Bitcoin is to remain secure and decentralized, can we expect the base layer to handle global-scale payments without external help?

Is that why the Lightning Network was born?

The Lightning Network was proposed as a solution to Bitcoin’s scalability limitations. But is Lightning just a temporary patch, or is it a permanent pillar of Bitcoin’s architecture?

Could the Base Layer scale to global demand without Lightning?

Can we imagine a future with exponential growth in block size, bandwidth, and computing power that allows the base layer to support millions of users directly? But wouldn’t that increase the cost of running a node and reduce decentralization? Can a system remain truly permissionless and censorship-resistant if only a few can afford to validate it?

Is Lightning Network just a bridge, or is it here to stay?

If Lightning provides near-instant payments with low fees, accessible even on mobile phones and over USSD in Africa with services like Machankura, and making Ecash a reality, why would we want to move away from it? Could Lightning evolve to become more user-friendly, interoperable, and secure, until it becomes the default way to make payments in Bitcoin?

Or am I asking the wrong question?

Rather than asking, “When will we no longer need the L2?”, should I be asking, “How can we best use L2 to preserve Bitcoin’s core values?” If the Base Layer is the settlement layer and Lightning is the payments layer, are they not two sides of the same coin?

So perhaps the better question is: Can Bitcoin be both scalable and sovereign without L2?

And if the answer is no, then maybe we’ll never stop needing Lightning.

Maybe we’ll just get better at using it.


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***What do you think?*** 
