• TheOneCurly
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        142 years ago

        As long as you have a channel with that person preconfigured and funded right? Otherwise you need to do an on chain transaction with on chain fees to set up that sub one cent transaction.

      • @[email protected]
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        2 years ago

        It’s also centralized and just a bandaid over an issue that could have been solved if Bitcoin had stayed true to its original intention, i.e. digital cash, not a fake store of value.

        • @[email protected]
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          82 years ago

          It’s also centralized

          Nothing about lightning is centralized, unless you think bitcoin itself is centralized.

          • @[email protected]
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            22 years ago

            At least Bitcoin cash stayed true to the goal of Bitcoin. A peer-to-peer electronic cash system.

            • @[email protected]
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              32 years ago

              That was also untrue. Electronic cash doesn’t imply no/low transaction fees. Basically everything they told you was a lie.

              • @[email protected]
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                32 years ago

                Show me where in the whitepaper does it mentions storing value, please.

                No/low transaction fees and ease of transaction is the main point of cash vs barter, Bitcoin abandoned that, now you have to go through the trouble of using level 2 to have small fees and quick transactions, what’s the point of Bitcoin then?

                • @[email protected]
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                  22 years ago

                  No. I’ve had this exact argument enough times that it was a relief to finally bet on it.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    32 years ago

                    Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively on financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments. While the system works well enough for most transactions, it still suffers from the inherent weaknesses of the trust based model. Completely non-reversible transactions are not really possible, since financial institutions cannot avoid mediating disputes. **The cost of mediation increases transaction costs, limiting the minimum practical transaction size and cutting off the possibility for small casual transactions**, and there is a broader cost in the loss of ability to make non-reversible payments for non- reversible services.

                    Right in the introduction to the whitepaper.

                    Maybe you should start with reading it so you would see where things went wrong.

              • @[email protected]
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                22 years ago

                So is saying that everyone who bought Bitcoin cash lost money considering today isn’t all time low.

                It’s not as if I was here to defend Bitcoin cash, I’m here to point out that Bitcoin and lighting network is flawed though.

                • @[email protected]
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                  22 years ago

                  split date != ATH

                  The rhetoric you’re repeating is straight out of that scam. And you linked to their subreddit.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    22 years ago

                    You’re the only one who talked about split date and if we go by that argument, whenever there’s a hard fork the people who were there before will never be losing because they suddenly own both without having purchased one of them.

              • @[email protected]
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                32 years ago

                Oh sorry if I don’t keep up to date to the daily movement of Bitcoin… I mean, I wouldn’t have because it’s a store of value and the basic principle of a store of value is the ability to use it and be guaranteed to have what you put in or close to it…

                • @[email protected]
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                  42 years ago

                  it’s a store of value

                  Sigh, you’re wrong again, bitcoin has the potential to be a store of value, it’s not one yet as it keeps going up long term until the market will have found a fair value.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    32 years ago

                    Well, if it’s a bad peer-to-peer electronic cash system and it’s not a store of value, what’s the point then? 🙂

                  • @[email protected]
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                    22 years ago

                    Oh I know how the shit works, I just don’t put blindfolds preventing me from seeing how flawed it is 🙂