307 sats \ 3 replies \ @sommerfeld 28 Oct 2022 \ on: What is the solution to this? bitcoin
I honestly don't understand the issue. People are free to connect and open channels to whoever they want. If many isolated networks arise, so be it.
I guess he’s saying: fast forward a few years and there’ll be a two speed lightning network.
One permissioned, surveilling all users, and censorable.
The other, slow and barely usable, but ‘free’
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In a way that already happens. The entire economy already functions on a network that is independent from the LN.
Sure it sucks that I cannot use lightning in my local grocery store but I can still get value from it by using with whoever is on the network.
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And the entire economy is surveilled and tracked. Bitcoin was aiming for peer-to-peer and if we can’t use it in that way, instead having to rely on intermediaries to send payments then we’re back at square one
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