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technological difficulty" as downloading 35 GB blocks every ten minutes. The story that somehow LN will allow bitcoin to scale to global adoption levels on a network of low-cost
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raspberry-pis is untrue.
No matter how I look at it, if bitcoin grows to global adoption levels and if most users run non-custodial wallets, then the hardware resources to run a node
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will exceed the capabilities of mobile devices and low-cost single-board computers like raspberry-pis. The difference is that in the original design of bitcoin, the users can still be
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their own banks, verify their own transactions, and send payments to any other user without the assistance of an intermediary. And this is possible with hardware no more sophisticated
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than a cheap feature phone on a SMS plan in a third world country. In the LN future, on the other hand, bitcoin (if you can even call it bitcoin at that point) becomes Banking 2.0."