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2025-01-10 14:07:30
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goatmeal on Nostr: payments I have made between large centralized exchanges and the most popular ...

payments I have made between large centralized exchanges and the most popular custodial wallet services have never failed. that's because they are "near" each other in a payment channel sense. their proximity to each other more closely resembles a hub and spoke model. the problem is that payment channel architecture is the ONLY cryptocurrency architecture where alice needs to be "close enough to" bob or "have enough liquidity between herself and" bob for a payment to succeed. lightning is the ONLY cryptocurrency tech that makes this sacrifice. it is impossible for payments to always work when the payment channel topology to be nice and distributed. you pick any other offchain scaling solution and alice can pay bob any amount whenever she wants and it always gets there.
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