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#173 – Nic Carter: Bitcoin Core Values, Layered Scaling, and Blocksize Debates

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Lightning Network

Lightning is one potential payments solution built on top of Bitcoin. It allows people to transact in a much faster and less frictional way without the need for Bitcoin's slow periodic settlement, assuming that everything sort of goes well. So you could do hundreds of thousands of transactions in a channel.

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