What is the difference between reachable (listening) vs. non-reachable (non-listening) nodes? Will there be incentive schemes to run nodes? Are nodes that use older versions of the Bitcoin Core software backwards-compatible? What are the differences between Bitcoin and Lightning nodes and wallets?

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18 COMMENTS

  1. Hi All,~
    Does every node need to have enough BTC to cover all transactions ? So if I route a 0.1 BTC payment and it goes through 6 nodes, do all 6 nodes need 0.1 BTC at least ? Because this will mean you would multiple times the BTC locked up that would actually be being used.

  2. Would it be possible to split the same bitcoin into two chains? Like two branches of the same chain, if you will? And perhaps perform a sort of atomic swap between each of them?
    I'm sure smarter people than me looked into it for scaling purposes.

  3. Forwarding the port on your router is no more difficult than changing the ringtone on your phone. Different phones and routers have different menus but the setting is more or less at the same place. If you can’t do this you probably should stay away from computers or you are risking to get hacked, your data stolen, or your computer infected and all your family photos encrypted. Watch some YouTube on your phone, learn what is what and how to do stuff safely and than proceed with bitcoin. The sooner you do it the better. The world is not going to wait for you.

  4. Just one thing is missing in any blockchain to evolve it further into total mass adoption. It is a Decentralized Escrow Peer-to-Peer protocol. The universal language of blockchain. By default.
    Something like TCP/IP was to Internet the decentralized Escrow protocol option shipped by default will turn any blockchain to a market place in itself – able to swap values between other markets/blockchains. Any type of values. And all of it goes p2p. Real estate, services, voting in any form… or whatever you'd like to digitize as some form of token and declare it as value.
    You create value and you declare it and see if the market accept it as a value.
    It's a declaration protocol, the one that always come before the actual deal. We need that intermediate layer before the actual swap of values.
    The nodes operators get the fees, which will insensitive nodes proliferation of any given blockchain due to competition for best security & speed with other crypto, while week and bad blockchains will die out in natural selection process.

  5. This might be a silly question….but I didn't here this being explained in the vid. Lightning has its own type of address, roughly 2.5 times the length of the standard bitcoin address. You also have a wallet for lightning and standard bitcoin. My question, can you transfer bitcoin from lightning wallet to standard wallet….eg ledger nano s??

  6. Spontaneous payments are coming to lightning which means that in future people will be able to just send bitcoin via lightning to some other node without the necessity to actively querying for an invoice (: also in lightning it is not only your keys = your coins but also your channel state your coins.

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