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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
by
pera
on 10/01/2018, 17:36:23 UTC
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I think if something important as that can come out it for sure will be integrated, and i think exchanges who will integrate it first will profit and all the users will switch. I think if the LN is available it won't be that hard for the exchanges to create ln wallet for fast storage and transactions.

Why would average exchange give a damn about LN? Trades are done off-chain, large portion of bitcoin "users" don't even own wallets (buy for fiat on exchange and keep it there), to deposit - user still has to pay miner fee to open channel (so makes no sense), withdrawal fees can be passed onto users (to discourage them for withdrawing).

I don't see any immediate incentive for exchanges to implement LN. They would likely be the last to jump on it, unless there's a massive demand from users, but average traders would hardly benefit from it, if at all (with an exception of arbitrage traders).


Yeah, it's not really on their interest right now. Maybe it's time to open new exchanges that uses LN and are more transparent with their finances, I'm sure that would attract a lot of users Cool