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3 transactions a second is 100m transactions per year. So everybody on the planet gets one transaction per 70 years. So everybody gets one transaction in their lifetime to open a channel to a lightning network provider and that's it.


You can do far more than 3 tx per second in mainchain. Look into channel factories. 100s of trustless lightning network channels in 1 onchain transaction. Layer approach is the only viable scaling solution.


With Lightning channel factories:

- 2 people can make 10,000,000 transactions between each other in seconds

- 10,000,000 people can make 2 transactions between each other in 46 days

Channel factories are not a solution to the user scaling problem.


How does it work? Don’t you still need O(n) bytes for the payload?




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