Hate to break it to you,

But Lightening entire design was meant to centralize control of bitcoin by the elite banker that can afford to lock up the majority of bitcoin, by just printing more useless fiat.

Also even Bitcoin itself has been centralized for years to the wealthy elite that can afford warehouse full of ASICS.
Chinese Mining Pools alone had more than 51% control for years.
Centralization of bitcoin happened years ago and no one seemed to care.    

Yeah , it is called header sync with a non-staking wallet and as soon as You or someone else finds Kiklo a Programmer to write it
, they will jump right the fuck on getting it done.

Quote Date March 26,2018

FYI:
The Non-Staking Lite Wallet using header sync will be the design the android wallet will follow.

ZEIT is The Greatest Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyVYXRD1Ans

It's FIRE   /  It's Freedom

It is Everything you ever want and it is Everything you ever Need!
And it is here right in Front of You , ZEIT is where you want to Be!   

Quote from ZEIT KNIGHTS Slack Forum

People that mention zeitcoin and ico are really clueless or bots.

ICO are mainly scams and usually for brand new coins.

ZEITCOIN was created by a month of Proof of Work Mining and then transitioned to a Proof of Stake Coin.
It is over 4 years old and there never was and never will be an ico as the zeitcoins are already distributed by PoW & PoS and 4 years of low prices on the exchanges.

Technically speaking , you are staking not mining with a PoS coin.

ZEITCOIN requires a block be a minimum of 24 hours old , before it can stake.
But with at least 2880 blocks everyday your chances to stake are much higher than other coins. 

ZEIT is over 4 years old, their will be NO ICO.

IF anyone want zeitcoins their are plenty of exchanges with plenty of pairs to trade in.

Cryptopia            ZEIT/BTC    
Cryptopia            ZEIT/LTC    
Cryptopia            ZEIT/DOGE    
CoinExchange    ZEIT/BTC    
CoinExchange    ZEIT/DOGE    
SouthXchange    ZEIT/LTC    
Trade Satoshi    ZEIT/DOGE    
Trade Satoshi    ZEIT/BTC    
Trade Satoshi    ZEIT/LTC    
Trade Satoshi    ZEIT/BCH    
SouthXchange    ZEIT/DASH    
CoinExchange    ZEIT/ETC    
SouthXchange    ZEIT/BTC    
SouthXchange    ZEIT/USD

ZEITCOIN is my favorite.
Over 4 years old and going strong. 

http://www.zeit-coin.net

They are running a 1 million coin give-a-way on facebook at the moment.
https://www.facebook.com/Zeitcoin/

Forums:
https://zeit-knights.slack.com
https://t.me/zeit_coin
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=487814.0

CMK:
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/zeitcoin/

1.  The PoW Miners will never agree to a switch to Proof of Stake.

2.  Bitcoin is limited to 21 million coins, it would never be safe as a proof of stake coin.

Since the # of coins per staked block are a large % of its security.
(More coins per staked block the higher the security.)

Coins with less than a total of 1 billion coins are not safe to use for Proof of Stake , unless they use a checkpoint server.

And if they use a checkpoint server, it centralized control of the coin to block transactions to whomever controls the checkpoint server.  

So Bitcoin (with it's limited 21 million only coins) moving to Proof of Stake makes it unsecured.
And the required checkpoint server for it gives 1 individual complete dominance of which transactions are approved.
So PoS for Bitcoin is a no go.
 

For a Truly Decentralized Secured Proof of Stake coin,
you have to choose one with a quantity like ZEITCOIN of over 30 Billion. (Which is why after 4 years they never needed a checkpoint server. )

Higher # of Coins Matter in the Energy Efficient Proof of Stake design , in the Energy Wasteful Proof of Work design , the # of coins is irrelevant.

FYI:
In earlier arguments on the 2nd post of this forum,
Miners complain that PoS always gives total dominion to the early stakers,  
By the early stakers only selling their interest and keeping their principle,
this is possible because of a high interest rates of 4% and higher giving early stakers an unfair advantage,

ZEITCOIN has removed this issue by moving to an Ultra Low Inflation rate of only .0005% per year,
meaning the staker has to sell his principle and can not forever just sell his interest.
This also has a beneficial effect of keeping the price stable, as zeitcoin was ~$3 million Marketcap a few months ago and as other coins have lost 40% or more,
ZEITCOIN has remained stable.  

FYI:
Actual Tax Day in the US , this year is April 17th. 

https://coinmill.com/ZTC_calculator.html#ZTC=100

Today's Currency Update  
100 ZEITCOINs =

0.01  United States Dollar (USD)
0.01  Euro (EUR)
0.01  Swiss Franc (CHF)
0.02  Singapore Dollar (SGD)
0.02  New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
0.03  Tunisian Dinar (TND)
0.05  Saudi Arabian Riyal (SAR)
0.05  Turkish Lira (TRY)
0.05  Malaysian Ringgit (MYR)
0.08  Chinese Yuan (CNY)
0.10  Hong Kong Dollar (HKD)
0.11  Swedish Krona (SEK)
0.16  South African Rand (ZAR)
0.23  Egyptian Pound (EGP)
0.24  Mexican Peso (MXN)
0.38  New Taiwan Dollar (TWD)
0.41  Thai Baht (THB)
0.64  Dominican Peso (DOP)
0.68  Philippine Peso (PHP)
0.75  Russian Ruble (RUB)
0.85  Indian Rupee (INR)
1.27  French Pacific Franc (XPF)
1.29  Icelandic Krona (ISK)
1.40     Japanese Yen (JPY)
1.50     Pakistan Rupee (PKR)
1.62     Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
7.37     Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
13.82   Korean Won (KRW)
15.45   Iraqi Dinar (IQD)
36.37   Colombian Peso (COP)
52.19   Cambodian Riel (KHR)
179.69  Indonesian Rupiah (IDR)
297.36  Viet Nam Dong (VND)
494.51  Iranian Rial (IRR)
643.99  Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte (VEF)

    ZEITCOIN


Does not require ASICS.
Users running a node can keep it's network running at almost zero cost.

Ultra Low Inflation (Less than 500 New coins created per day)

Onchain Transaction Capacity is 20X bitcoin pre-segwit
Offchain Transaction Capacity is unlimited (Offchain Capacity is provided by 3rd parties like some of the exchanges.)

All ZEITCOIN Nodes are Full Nodes, meaning any user can earn interest with it's Proof of Stake Design

Truly Decentralized (No one can block transactions on a continuous basis like in bitcoin & tether & ethereum.)

Dash uses a PoW Design (Energy Wasteful) with MasterNodes (Needed to give users an incentive to run a full node.)


ZEITCOIN is
Energy Efficient

Ultra Low Inflation (Less than 500 New coins created per day)

Onchain Transaction Capacity is 20X bitcoin pre-segwit
Offchain Transaction Capacity is unlimited (Offchain Capacity is provided by 3rd parties like some of the exchanges.)

All ZEITCOIN Nodes are Full Nodes, meaning any user can earn interest with it's Proof of Stake Design
(FYI: Their is a plan to make it where the Full Nodes also receive transaction fees when they stake, but that is ~ two years away.)
(Currently all transactions fees are being destroyed.)

Truly Decentralized (No one can block transactions on a continuous basis.)

To be honest all of the so called top coins on CMK are inferior to ZEITCOIN.
In Time this will become apparent to all.  

Muslims don't all agree with the fatwa, as the fatwa was put out by a centralized authority figure in Turkey.
The fatwa also complained that bitcoin was not backed by the government,
the conflict in this is that gold , silver , Food Barter is also not backed by the government , so bitcoin falls into the same category as these items which the fatwa ignores.

Two Turkish Muslims were just fired for ignoring this fatwa.
https://themerkle.com/turkish-imams-fired-for-violating-fatwa-against-bitcoin-trading/

As long as Bitcoin does not pay an interest that exceeds the Islamic requirement of becoming usury ,
then there is really nothing in Islam blocking the usage of bitcoin.

In Time , this centralized authority in Turkey will be shown to be cow-towing to government contacts,
as his fatwa will be repealed or ignored as it has no legitimate reason to be followed in their religious ideology.  

* Be aware, Muslims outside of Turkey are under no obligations to follow a fatwa from a Turkish figure. *

I can answer that one.

By creating a CME Market, the high end players can now ignore the real bitcoin markets where you actually have to buy Bitcoins.

This artificially increases the supply of bitcoin by allowing bitcoin trades without actual bitcoins ever being held or delivered.

It diverts fiat that would have helped keep bitcoins actual supply limited.
It also has a psychological effect of creating a standard price for bitcoin that nothing higher than the CME price should be used to buy a bitcoin.

Combine this, with the Banks now blocking credit card purchases of bitcoin and you can see how
The Powers that Be are manipulating the price and destroying user confidence,
this is a cycle that feeds on itself and will continue to control the price.
Wherever the CME points is where the price will head.

Only 2 things could break this cycle.
1.  Bitcoin actual usage Price exceeds the CME manipulated price to expose it as a sham.
(Doubtful as more transactions volume is flowing into altcoins every day.)

2.  A Law is passed requiring that actual bitcoins be delivered at the end of the CME contracts instead of the fiat only manipulation.
(Also Doubtful as TPTB are manipulating the governments along with the markets.)

Or they already cashed out months ago , so they had the fiat ready to pay sitting in a bank. 

Trade Satoshi has placed their wallet in Maintenance , while it syncs with the network.
Always check : https://tradesatoshi.com/Status

Once it comes out of maintenance , your coins should arrive.

4 years and counting.
Final Rate ULI : .0005%

     Happy Easter!

FYI:

You used the command connect=  in your post above instead of addnode=.

By using connect=, those nodes will ignore all other nodes except the ones in the connect= .

You need to change this to addnode= otherwise anyone not in the connect= list will be blocked from your network.

Everyone should correct this asap so you don't segregate your network.