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		Scarblac on Dec 7, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bitcoin Exchanges Are Buckling While the Price Sur... So a currency that is hardly used to pay for things with and can handle a small number of transactions per second, with transaction fees, risk of being made illegal, competitor altcoins that are at least as good and the energy consumption of a small country will hold 2% of the value of the world's financial wealth? Buying bridges from strangers looks completely sane in comparison.

em3rgent0rdr on Dec 7, 2017 [–]

Lightning network protocol has reached version 1.0 and they've demonstrated videos of it working.

afghanPower on Dec 7, 2017 | [–]

Lightning network destroys the whole reason why you would use bitcoin -> decentralization.

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