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They say it's built on top of the Lightning Network, so yes.


Doesn’t the lightning network help centralize the bitcoin platform in exchange for efficiency and speed?


How so? It doesn't trade decentralization for speed, but rather it just achieves speed in another way (requiring on-chain consensus only on channel open/close rather than every transaction). The decentralization is still there, except it moves from miners to nodes run by users. Am I missing something obvious?


Because not all nodes are equal. 10% of the nodes are responsible for 80% of the transactions.




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