10 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 25 Apr 2023 \ parent \ on: Is Lightning truly "infinitely scalable"? (Understanding HTLCs) bitcoin
You have a wrong perspective of how LN payments are done.
NOT everybody will "route" payments. ONLY LSPs and public nodes that are running routing nodes will literally route payments.
But the majority will NOT use public routing nodes, but just private nodes (mostly mobiles). And these private nodes DO NOT route payments, just make payments.
So your concern is for nothing.
I worded the comment wrong, what I meant was when users are making payments through routes.
And again, when those private nodes make payments, that still requires funds to be locked up across the route until the payment is considered completed and the HTLCs are consolidated, which is what my post is concerned about
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You are worried too much for nothing.
You also do not take in consideration other aspects:
- in the Bitcoin standard, people will spend less, only when they really need it. That means less transactions (compared with other payment networks).
- BTC and LN will always improve. We are just being starting, is too early right now, LN is only 4 years old, is just a small kid, barely starting to walk.
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