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Huw | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Thanks! Two questions:

1. What would be a better phrase? "Off chain"?
2. What are affinity scams?
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Brian | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Lightning and liquid are layer 2 solutions and that's what you'd call them but there are several new things popping up that are saying they are layer 2 but are actually just affinity scams. An affinity scam pretends to be the thing people want in order to run their scam.

If you go to bitcoin .com you'll see them selling the shitcoin Bitcoin cash. It's not bitcoin but to the uninformed, they want bitcoin, go to bitcoin .com, then get scammed
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Huw | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Thanks for the explanation. Was aware of BCH being lame but good to know about other affinity scams around layer 2