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makeasnek@lemmy.ml 8 months agoIt’s been letting people be their own bank for 15 years. You can send transactions across the globe for pennies in fees which confirm instantly using Bitcoin lightning. The supply has remained capped at 21 million. It’s doing exactly what it said it would do without a single hack or hour of downtime 24/7, 365.
hark@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The lightning network is more centralized. Congrats, you just exchanged the banks for a different set of banks.
makeasnek@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Except it’s not. Lightning is incredibly decentralized, you can run a full lightning node on a raspberry pi. Look up a graph of lightning network, looks just like any other decentralized system
hark@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, I’m sure your dinky raspberry pi is processing a meaningful number of transactions.
makeasnek@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
It can. Lightning transactions are as easy and lightweight to process as e-mail.