21 sats \ 8 replies \ @roy 24 Jul \ parent \ on: To Help Bitcoin Flow, We’re Adding Some Liquid to the Breez SDK lightning
I said you are right re "for all users", but federation members have early access and it's not specific to Boltz.
I just meant Boltz has an unfair advantage over PeerSwap. I tried building the latest Elements, mempoolinfo still shows minimal fee as 0.1.
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Why is the advantage unfair?
I’ve never heard the phrase, fair advantage. I guess all advantage is unfair.
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Advantage can be fair if someone gets market share by offering a better price and quality of the product. It is unfair if there is an artificial handicap for competitors.
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Is first mover advantage unfair? Boltz has been swapping liquid and lightning long before anyone else.
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Boltz and Loop are for-profit centralized businesses. PeerSwap is an open source decentralized solution, saving cost for everyone who rebalance their channels. Bitcoin is about openness and freedom. I hate it when a corporation gets cost advantage for a year over open source alternatives. If you need to beta test, do it on testnet. Early access for a selected few is so fiat. First they said Q3, now EOY. PR was merged in May. Sounds like a conspiracy to me. Or at least a conflict of interests. Boltz has no incentive to vote for public release!
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Peer swap is not a liquid federation member?
Mystery solved!
Non members should not expect to have federation benefits.
It’s like Ukraine expecting NATO membership benefits. Maybe Ukraine is a bad example
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Elements Project is the developer of Core Lightning, Elements Core and PeerSwap. They are part of Blockstream, a Liquid Federation founding member.