/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>23947169
i'll give you instant, 0-conf is flawed if someone wants to scam their coffee purchase. it could be solved by nodes freezing out miners that violates the first seen rule but i don't think that will happen. it is possible to implement a system similar to lightning on chain however: on-chain micropayments. i don't have the url with me for that though. i think it will require some opcodes that blockstream has disabled.

"scales" assumes that it will stop being worse and worse the more that use LN at the same time. it haven't happened yet and i'm not betting that it ever will.

optional privacy can be done on-chain with coinmixing or coinmerging or whatever it was called, i saw that electroncash now offer that funtionality build-in. haven't tried it yet but seems very neat.

all in all i don't think all the added complexity was worth it just compared to increasing the blocksizes. and that's not even accounted for the lost adoption (steam supported BTC but dropped it for the high fees), lost programmers and the split community. blockstream sacrificed so much for LN.

>>23947182
i'm not on my home computer so i cant give a full answer, sorry.

>>23947194
i read that ABC devs are scrambling to set up GPU mining, don't know if true