This doesn't necessarily have to be true. If Alice opens a channel with a Coffee Shop, that does not mean that Alice won't be able to pay anyone outside of it (hubs, wallet routing?). There isn't much different to keeping your coins within LN than keeping them in your wallet (if the infrastructure is there). Read (example of wallet routing, not hubs):

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Again, the exact features have yet to be fully decided and implemented.

It will continue to increase at a similar pace as it is doing now.

What multiple transactions? You only need 1 TX to settle.

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Update: Several corrections.

It does not mean that indeed. However, technically you don't need to increase it (yet) as LN at 1 MB can accommodate a lot of users.

What does this mean?

Segwit should come within 0.12.X (either 2 or three). I have no idea how they are going to finalize LN at the moment. There are multiple implementations and the advanced ones will come to some sort of agreement on the exact parameters.

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P.S. Ignore the two posters under your post (pointless posts due to signature).

Well, I don't think that the definition of LN (e.g. LN is X) has been used widely and even if you try searching for it you might fail to find one. The Lightning Network is supposed to represent complex, bi-directional payment channels. The idea behind it is that e.g. Alice and Bob open up a payment channel between them and lock X amount of funds (this process currently takes ~30 minutes, i.e. 3 confirmations) in it. What makes Lightning so 'special' here (in the terms of scalability) is that it enables a theoretically infinite amount of transactions between Alice and Bob without bloating the blockchain (imagine 1 million transactions between two partners, and only a single TX to settle on the main chain). Transacting within the LN is both instant and trust.less. It might even improve privacy at some point as there are potential unknown use cases.

IIRC someone said that a working implementation should be available soon (I assume beta).

Interesting. It really comes down to how they look and feel. I'm certain that if the storage card is of greater quality that you will have no problem finding sellers. I'd definitely buy one (in that case) as well. When can we expect to see some sketches (should you choose to go forward with this)?

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The percentage is probably even higher in reality (I also recall deleting quite a number of these over time). Another bad factor here is that once someone resurrects this thread there is a chance that it will be noticed by signature spammers (who do not notice the date due to their swiftness) and thus an (usually) 'useless' discussion takes place.

Exactly.

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I disagree with this statement because it is based on a generalization. You can't really know whether they've 'realized' something or not, nor can you know whether traditional banking will allow payments from remote areas. This might be true but we can't say for certain whether it is.

In theory, yes.

Stop being greedy. 1 BTC is always equal to 1 BTC.

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The interesting fact here is that Valve reached out to them (if true). I initially thought that it was vice-versa (I do remember some statement 2-3 years ago about not wanting to deal with Bitcoin).

This is why Bitcoin is quite good. It is always worth noting that it is cheaper than traditional payment options (however, acquiring it might not be (e.g. exchange fees)).

I think that was suggested already (or something similar). The forum, in the current state, does not have such a feature.

There is a link under "Post" and "Preview" when one is writing a post (albeit it is small).

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Maybe because I do an adequate amount of research before posting? The developers have stated that it is coming within a minor version and that other things are planned for 0.13. Keep in mind that the next major version isn't going to to be released soon (the aim is 6-7 months after each major release). I would also like to add that I can't be 100% certain in this case.

Adding additional division units != adding additional supply. To increase the monetary supply of Bitcoin would require a hard fork with near unanimous consensus. Most of the people hate even the thought of the idea.

No.

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No problem.

This is why I've noted that it can be ignored due to the nature of the language, so that people do not get the false impression.

Once/if you post those, notify me and I'll see what I can do (would probably just update the previous post).

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