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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Block Size Scalability Issues
by
BitCryptex
on 01/09/2018, 16:21:25 UTC
They are obviously not going to have 1 or 2 channels, but 1000's. The point is, the Lightning Network is not taking away miners fees for them, if they are also hosting Lightning Network nodes. It is a complete change for some of them, but it will supplement income if the Block reward falls away.

Keep in mind that the Lightning Network makes new type of payments cost-effective. We would never see so many micro-payments on-chain. Miners in fact benefit from this by confirming transactions which open and close channels. Lightning Network implementations are going to get better and better. Autopilot is not perfect and it can't take care of channel balancing which is important long-term. It should change in the next few years.