I realized that "friends and family" solutions are irrelevant for something what wants to be money at the end of the day.

Also what's the point in "private" tokens if anonymity set is small.

Valet ♦ but it has no message signing. However, it has LN and batching.

It is pretty old paper though. I've also found dupes here, and I am sorry. But then I realized it needs to be brought up again. The authors made a conclusion with regard to 2017 fee spikes, but now, if we extrapolate, we could have twice as much higher fees as we have, without Lightning.

I think absolutely indeterministic procedures are more important here. IBEX is probably the strongest US startup in LN payments.

I always wondering how they missed "too much government" among post WW2 lessons.

It should have been a 2 EUR price cap to complete the image.

Another way to say it may be bad both ways. DOJ raised bets very much because node runners may be easily outlawed.

He should avoid it personally. If not it will be yet another unfair case VS banks. How many bankers really got behind the bars for anything

I think they deserve some compassion. They offended many people. Me, too, but a very long time ago. I'd never wish anybody to go to jail.

I think we will see if they actually harvested xpubs. Until that I give them benefit of the doubt.

I am not a SW fan, but I don't support that. They maintained a protocol. However for them, it is better to release it as FOSS. I don't like CoinJoins because they can't scale. However, I mostly agree with you about that SW did PR in a very wrong way.

I have that understanding. But in places where I am from, getting into custody means that their job is done for 99%. And here I am pretty ready to expect very adversarial scenario.

Maybe it is a good strategy to tell on every corner that the service is compliant. I think it is time to stop paying attention to that.

Found it. Nodeless case. May be not exactly LN router but very close to it.

This is sad. The network keeps running however, there is at least one case in Canada when LN node was considered as money transmitter.

They will probably use it for restrictions. IMF + BIS has a load of projects oriented for gov coins interoperability.