3 sats \ 1 reply \ @vlx 18 Sep 2022 \ parent \ on: Lightning Network and Interplanetary Settlement bitcoin
Because even if they decide to use lightning for mars-to-mars transactions, nothing really guarantees that a LN peer is actually in Mars
You can prove that a lightning peer is on Mars simply by responding quickly. This prevents faking a Martian peer.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @random_bitcoiner 18 Sep 2022
True, didn't think of that. But you'd really want to keep a separate LN for mars and thus making it not interoperable with the one on earth makes sense.
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