top | item 31461107 (no title) gbaygon | 3 years ago have you heard of lightning network? discuss order hn newest dgrove|3 years ago The only problem with LN is that is actively requires an internet connection. Wherein Bitcoin could be done offline similarly to a Card Imprinter jjtheblunt|3 years ago lightning is a reimplementation of a part of visa, caching for response time and still recording on a blockchain, no?reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule gbaygon|3 years ago It's an alternative payment network, implemented as a bitcoin layer 2. You can argue that it's somewhat centralized, but not as much as Visa. npc12345|3 years ago No, that is not how lightning works. load replies (1) yebyen|3 years ago Where do you actually use lightning? Does it work for you most of the time? gbaygon|3 years ago Well I've actually paid for street food using lightning, and also use it regularly it to send money to my family using Strike. It's instant and practically free. load replies (1)
dgrove|3 years ago The only problem with LN is that is actively requires an internet connection. Wherein Bitcoin could be done offline similarly to a Card Imprinter
jjtheblunt|3 years ago lightning is a reimplementation of a part of visa, caching for response time and still recording on a blockchain, no?reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule gbaygon|3 years ago It's an alternative payment network, implemented as a bitcoin layer 2. You can argue that it's somewhat centralized, but not as much as Visa. npc12345|3 years ago No, that is not how lightning works. load replies (1)
gbaygon|3 years ago It's an alternative payment network, implemented as a bitcoin layer 2. You can argue that it's somewhat centralized, but not as much as Visa.
yebyen|3 years ago Where do you actually use lightning? Does it work for you most of the time? gbaygon|3 years ago Well I've actually paid for street food using lightning, and also use it regularly it to send money to my family using Strike. It's instant and practically free. load replies (1)
gbaygon|3 years ago Well I've actually paid for street food using lightning, and also use it regularly it to send money to my family using Strike. It's instant and practically free. load replies (1)
dgrove|3 years ago
jjtheblunt|3 years ago
reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
gbaygon|3 years ago
npc12345|3 years ago
yebyen|3 years ago
gbaygon|3 years ago