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Lightning will never catch on as it basically demands that everyone who
uses it to become a speculator. Payment hubs and merchants will be at the
mercy of the bitcoin price while their funds stay locked up in payment
channels. This idea is a dead-end.
On 10 August 2015 at 22:43, Adam Back via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> In terms of usage I think you'd more imagine a wallet that basically
> parks Bitcoins onto channels at all times, so long as they are
> routable there is no loss, and the scalability achieved thereby is
> strongly advantageous, and there is even the potential for users to
> earn fees by having their wallets participate in channel rebalancing
> (where hubs pay users to rebalance channels - end up with the same net
> position but move funds from one user-owned channel to another.)
> Exchange deposit, withdrawal, payments, even in-exchange trades can
> usefully happen in lightning for faster, cheaper more scalable
> transactions.
>
> Adam
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<div dir=3D"ltr">Lightning will never catch on as it basically demands that=
everyone who uses it to become a speculator. Payment hubs and merchants wi=
ll be at the mercy of the bitcoin price while their funds stay locked up in=
payment channels. This idea is a dead-end.</div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"=
><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On 10 August 2015 at 22:43, Adam Back via b=
itcoin-dev <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxf=
oundation.org" target=3D"_blank">bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org</a>&=
gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 =
0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In terms of usage I thi=
nk you'd more imagine a wallet that basically<br>
parks Bitcoins onto channels at all times, so long as they are<br>
routable there is no loss, and the scalability achieved thereby is<br>
strongly advantageous, and there is even the potential for users to<br>
earn fees by having their wallets participate in channel rebalancing<br>
(where hubs pay users to rebalance channels - end up with the same net<br>
position but move funds from one user-owned channel to another.)<br>
Exchange deposit, withdrawal, payments, even in-exchange trades can<br>
usefully happen in lightning for faster, cheaper more scalable<br>
transactions.<br>
<br>
Adam<br>
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