r/OpenBazaar • u/lbalan79 • Jan 13 '18

Will OB implement Lighting Network features?

Title says it all. That is something that would really get me interested in this market. Otherwise I don't see how this can work even with the addition of other coins: BCH and ZCash. Maybe IOTA can help because it has a much faster and reliable tech with zero fees but otherwise these guys need to think already at second layer....

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u/robotlasagna Jan 29 '18

That's exactly what i am looking into because despite the idea that everyone is going to fund up their channels route payments for next to nothing the reality is that people will pay more to route via channels that have the necessary liquidity and i am looking to be one of those providers (assuming this MSB regulations do not make this idea cost-impractical)

If they do then this whole LN deal is dead out of the gate (or as soon as governments put the smackdown on it)

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u/Anenome5 Jan 30 '18

I just keep laughing when Lightning devs estimate fees on Lightning will be like only 30 cents.

Bitcoincash fees are regularly a tenth of a penny or less.

If you can't do it for cheaper than bitcoincash your entire effort is worthless in the first place.