A look at the lightning network (Lyn Alden)

Lyn Alden just wrote a pretty long take on the Lightning Network making the case that a medium of exchange can only be built on top of a store of value like Bitcoin.

It's pretty interesting but I'm still not sure that there will be enough fees from Lightning in the future.

Article: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/a-look-at-the-lightning-network/

Here's a podcast read through of the hour and a half article 😄https://open.spotify.com/episode/5UxQj5uXsgd3lcGV6wepI7?si=G3-nMVdJS6qXj-r32zLePQ



Submitted August 09, 2022 at 01:31PM by yehoshzl https://ift.tt/NTOWixF

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