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[ARCHIVED] Jay | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 It's almost like there are cons and tradeoffs to anything built on bitcoin. Lighting isn't a silver bullet despite how amazing it is.
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mleku | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 source routing is a big problem, it's not scalable

lightning is based on source routing

thus it has a scaling problem, it's technically more of a propensity to offline and crash failures though, and bigger, it has a scalability problem because it's impossible for nodes to know enough about the network and its state when state is such a big dataset that is not completely propagated
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bitcoinsandy | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Lighting is always needed when it gets dark so it will do well