Lightning Network: Cool Enough for Twitter Jack and Fidelity But Not Iran - by Jamie Redman

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Lightning Network: Cool Enough for Twitter Jack and Fidelity But Not Iran
news.bitcoin.com
by Jamie Redman
February 26, 2019

Excerpt:

On Feb. 22, bitcoiners rejoiced when the financial banking giant Fidelity was handed the ‘Lightning torch’ as the Lightning Network’s social experiment was passed on to its latest bearer. Then, two days later, the new Lightning torch holder made the decision to exclude passing it on to a cryptocurrency executive from Iran because of U.S. sanctions. After a few words were exchanged between the torch holder and onlooking cryptocurrency supporters, an argument erupted over the debacle. The exclusion showed that a good portion of the community believes it is wrong to censor individuals over arbitrary laws and invisible borders.

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