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>>9144803
looks like a peer-to-peer network is when all nodes are equal; when they all can act as every role in the network.

based on that I can see Lightning Network in two ways:
1) in theory it's peer-to-peer, any node could connect to any other node
2) in practice every node can't play the same role of every other node because it may not have enough funds. plus the creation of channels are not automatic so in the end there will always be some kind of "node backbone".

that way I can understand how some people might say LN is a peer-to-peer network while others say it is not