This is one of the downsides of Layer 2 type Lightning Network

There is a Bitcoiner advocating to close payment channels to another one for differences of opinion

Imagine this applied to the central big nodes like LNBig. This type of stuff can be used to attack the network and fragment it (there was a recent paper about it). But the fact of the matter is, this is why blockchain is superior tech.

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libre: Thanks. Cross-posted to r/btc

<libre[m]> "Imagine this applied to the..." <- Do you have a link to the paper, by chance?

Of course Govs could direct big LN hubs

Thanks! Too bad that their empirical analysis only uses data from January 2018 - July 2019

That's some frightening articles

Muleta[m]: Not a surprise though.

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