Hypothetically, if you create a protocol that doesn’t require you to create channels with counter parties, that’d be faster. But it doesn’t exist and might not be possible.

Yeah, this clip was about other blockchains.

Is there any non-blockchain payment method that could rival the speed of a direct (non-routed) Lightning payment?

Oh he meant impossible for a blockchain to be faster? That’s definitely true

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bitcoin

"Lightning is not only faster than all blockchains, it's impossible to be faster than Lightning."

One example Pierre referred to was a trader with a direct connection to Kraken's Lightning node, or any instance where a payment is directly moving from one peer to another.

Is it fair to say that the # of nodes on a blockchain would have to be smaller than the # of hops on a routed Lightning tx to be faster? Assuming all nodes were located in the same data center in both cases?