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What happens to the engine trustless selling point of bitcoin when the only plausible scalability solutions entail reintroducing trusted third parties?



The great thing about lightning is that it doesn't introduce trusted third parties: it only requires that nodes have commited funds.


You don't need to trust the third parties, that's the point.




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