COINBASE, EXCHANGES ‘WON’T RUN’ LIGHTNING NETWORK – ANDREAS ANTONOPOULOS by ReallyLittlehands at reddit
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Coinbase, Exchanges ‘Won’t Run’ Lightning Network – Andreas Antonopoulos
January 26, 2018
by Wilma Woo
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“I don’t think Coinbase will run Lightning, and I think there are many reasons why we’re not going to see regulated exchanges run Lightning Hubs,” Antonopoulos told host Adam B. Levine earlier this week.
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Chief motivator for his perspective is LN’s security setup: a transaction can make as many as 20 ‘hops’ between nodes to reach its target, yet no node in the chain even knows which position it is fulfilling.
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