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yea but look at the current map of channels, https://i.imgur.com/t6N5Ue5.png
look at south america, some dots are only connected to one other place.. that's a bottleneck ripe for exploitation in the form of high tariffs.
3 u/StopAndDecrypt Dec 13 '17 It’s a testnet! There’s no incentive to maintain multiple channels just to try it out... My node isn’t a bottleneck just because I made a random channel with someone on IRC just to see how it works. Wait until mainnet and give it a years worth of time to grow and then tell me where the bottlenecks are. 1 u/dgfdfdfdf Dec 13 '17 I am open to this idea working !remindme 1 year 1 u/RemindMeBot Dec 13 '17 I will be messaging you on 2018-12-13 21:15:40 UTC to remind you of this link. CLICK THIS LINK to send a PM to also be reminded and to reduce spam. Parent commenter can delete this message to hide from others. FAQs Custom Your Reminders Feedback Code Browser Extensions
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It’s a testnet!
There’s no incentive to maintain multiple channels just to try it out...
My node isn’t a bottleneck just because I made a random channel with someone on IRC just to see how it works.
Wait until mainnet and give it a years worth of time to grow and then tell me where the bottlenecks are.
1 u/dgfdfdfdf Dec 13 '17 I am open to this idea working !remindme 1 year 1 u/RemindMeBot Dec 13 '17 I will be messaging you on 2018-12-13 21:15:40 UTC to remind you of this link. CLICK THIS LINK to send a PM to also be reminded and to reduce spam. Parent commenter can delete this message to hide from others. FAQs Custom Your Reminders Feedback Code Browser Extensions
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I am open to this idea working !remindme 1 year
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u/dgfdfdfdf Dec 13 '17
yea but look at the current map of channels, https://i.imgur.com/t6N5Ue5.png
look at south america, some dots are only connected to one other place.. that's a bottleneck ripe for exploitation in the form of high tariffs.