Quote from: dinofelis on February 02, 2018, 05:40:53 AM

Quote from: Wind_FURY on February 02, 2018, 05:24:48 AM

Quote from: dinofelis on February 02, 2018, 03:40:44 AM

If you remain online, and if the block chain is not saturated, however, the LN is quite safe to use.

Would it be more viable then for the Lightning Network to be more like a web service than something you use as a desktop application?

Only if you give your keys also to that web service. In other words, your bank. You have to stay online to be able to sign at any moment with your own keys. If you want another service to do so while you are offline, you have to give them your keys. But then, they have your coins. Like an exchange, or a bank.

Yes a service exactly like that where you can zap your coins from one service to another through the Lightning Network. But reading that does not make me more optimistic about LN's decentralization. Maybe Joalnd Fyookball was partly right about centralized hubs in LN.

I believe it's an issue to think about going forward.

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In fact, the only safe way is to have the server hardware in your own place (say, an old PC running in your basement). Even using a VPS service on which you run your own LN wallet is not safe, because of course the administrator can access the keys of the wallet if it has to run. You cannot keep them encrypted, because the wallet software needs to access them all the time. So the only safe way to run an LN wallet, is to run it on a clean machine over which you have physical control. In exactly the same way as you do bitcoin transactions right now.

I am trying to find out what is your stance in the "scaling debate", though I am too lazy to read all your past posts. But are you for bigger blocks? If yes, then what is your opinion on Bitcoin Cash? Is it good enough or can it be better?