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David Marcus: From PayPal to Facebook to Building on Bitcoin and Lightning

Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell

CHAPTER

The Evolution of Lightning

I'm kind of curious about the evolutions because until recently I thought that lightning was the only network on layer two and now I'm learning about some rivals. So will lightning be the only way to scale Bitcoin or will there be others? Will there be competition? Well, I think there will definitely be competition and that's the beauty of building on an open network - anyone can come up with a better proposal. The hard part is actually network effects. You know, the underlying network effects while nascent and early for lightning are still strong.

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