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@ Big Barry Bitcoin
2025-03-10 17:37:46
Bitcoin too. Everyone has their own keys, they create their own transactions and they broadcast it to any number of bitcoin nodes online (or otherwise -- e.g. radio, satellite, bluetooth.)
Lightning not the same unfortunately. You rely on a particular node and the interactivity of a particular party. Lightning in general works, just like saying "banking works, but PayPal is down". At best, the unilateral exit makes it "still bitcoin".
But still, this is power: having a money that is robust and NOT dependent on a single point of failure. Not only does it not rely on a particular form of infrastructure, but it also is not founded on a changeable law, it is not tethered to a country, it just is.