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Vitalik’s folly running on top of the Bitcoin Network.

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Yes the article was written in 2020 as well, however, centralized turing complete code execution of monetary settlement is a thing that keeps being recreated over and over again. Old news is always new to the latest sucker.

Plus, I saw it was never posted to SN.

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It's good you shared it. It was mostly to add context as Fiatjaf's opinion on LN has evolved over the years, I believe.

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18 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 17 Oct 2024
But it is not decentralized. Fiatjaf controls it all – as he is quick to note

Lol. I thought Fiatjaf hated lightning

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He's certainly critical of it (which he is of everything tbf) and became increasingly so over time, but I'm not sure he hates it.

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Changed title from "centralized Ethereum" because it's redundant. Ethereum is already centralized.

Also because of title word count

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Coindesk does not know how to stay current. Just look at the commits. Kids are producing news once again.

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