50 sats \ 0 replies \ @l0k18 23 Jul 2023 \ on: Is Lightning Scaling Bitcoin in a Way Nobody Predicted? - Bitfinex blog bitcoin
Shitcoiners are incapable of thinking outside the securitised assets box. And circa 1983 grade woo Chaumian cash.
You see, it took literally 40 years for everyone to catch up to Chaum. There's some other things that happened since then. Like his invention of mixnets, and the many that have been created, because chaumian cash you must identify yourself in some way to the issuer to pay unless you have an effective misdirection in your traffic you leak metadata that links between the issue and the spend.
And it really exaggerates on the point of LN's takeup stage. IMO it was only last year there was enough and reliable enough payment channels established to really cope with small numbers of users, the amount of funding and project startup going on in LN only also started to really move upwards last year as well. I know because I am a Go programmer and other than shitcoins this is another emerging area where we can be engaged in an enterprise as specialists in the LN and general P2P space.