50 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 8 Apr \ parent \ on: Will Pleb Hobby Lightning Nodes Be Big, Profitable Enterprises In The Future? lightning
I hope that isn't inevitable. One glimmer of hope is that Tor and email don't have financial incentives. I want to believe that if lightning nodes can be made a lot easier/cheaper to run profitably, people will run them.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullcount 8 Apr
Email certainly has a financial incentive even if it's not expressed in SMTP.
99% of email servers are run by for-profit companies. Same is not true of Tor routing nodes.
So because LN has financial incentives built-in, like email, it may also go the way of email. Only faster.
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