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March 1, 2019: Lightning Network has become a complete train wreck. Oh by the way, it's no longer 18 months but YEARS until it's ready
| for mass-consumption.
https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/aw71q8/lightning_network_has_become_a_complete_train/February 28, 2019: Decentralized path routing is still an unsolved| problem for Lightning Network (currently "source routing" works at this scale)
https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/avt6ow/do_people_agree_with_andreas_antonopoulos_that/February| 25, 2019: Lightning Network bank-wallet is "kind of centralized but it has to be this way if you want mass-adoption"
https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/aup68s/lightning_network_ba|nkwallet_is_kind_of/February 23, 2019: 5 Things I Learned Getting Rekt on Lightning Network
https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/atx8jq/psa_important_video_to_watch_if_you_use_ligh|tning/February 22, 2019: Listen to this great talk on the problems and complexities of using HTLC's on the Lightning Network ⚡️, and possible alternatives.
https://old.reddit.co|m/r/btc/comments/atmlnp/listen_to_this_great_talk_on_the_problems_and/February 20, 2019: The current state of Bitcoin companies & dealing with Lightning Network ⚡Highlights: Hard| to implement, takes a ton of man hours, with no return on investment. LN adds zero utility. The only reason some companies support it is for marketing reasons.
https://old.reddit.com|/r/lightningnetwork/comments/asuoyy/the_current_state_of_bitcoin_companies_dealing/February 20, 2019: Current requirements to run BTC/LN: 2 hard drives + zfs mirrors, need to run a| BTC full node, LN full node + satellite, Watchtower and use a VPN service. And BTC fees are expensive, slow, unreliable.
https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/aspkj2/current_requirem|ents_to_run_btcln_2_hard_drives/January 17, 2019: 18 Months Away? Latest Lightning Network Study Calls System a 'Small Central Clique'
https://news.bitcoin.com/18-months-away-latest|-lightning-network-study-calls-system-a-small-central-clique/March 21, 2018: Lightning Network DDoS Sends 20% of Nodes Down
https://www.trustnodes.com/2018/03/21/lightning-network-d|dos-sends-20-nodesOctober 10, 2018: Watchtowers (third party services) are introduced as a way to monitor your funds when you can't be online 24/7 so they aren't stolen
https://medi|um.com/@akumaigorodski/watchtower-support-is-coming-to-bitcoin-lightning-wallet-8f969ac206b2June 25, 2018: Study finds that the probability of routing $200 on LN between any two| nodes is 1%
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