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TLS46: Rene Pickhardt on Multi-Part Payments, Zero Base Fee, and Lightning Network Limitations

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The Lightning Network, Is It Really a Decentralized Network?

The entire idea and purpose of the lightning network is that we want to build a de centralized network, right? And it's like, as i said, it's completely counter intuitive, right? You have congestion. You just make a second lane, you allow faster traffic, and now you have even more congestion. How did that happen? Ger so now, if you were the traffic controller, of the lightningnetwork, and you had full, full rain full authority here, how would you try and lay out the grid,. or this kind of network to optimize for payment flows? That's part of the summer of bitcon project to find out.

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