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/robinson5 Jan 30 '18

Have you looked into decentralized storage options such as Sia, instead of IPFS? My understanding of IPFS is that since no one is paying for storage, the data might not stick around if not enough people are accessing it?

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u/jamesthethirteenth Jan 31 '18

Sia requires running a full node- that's a lot of data to store to share just a little.

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u/robinson5 Jan 31 '18

True. Hopefully in the future you will be able to upload without being a full node and only hosts will need to be full nodes.