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Board Development & Technical Discussion
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Re: How to Solve the Non-Mining Node issue and Increase Real Scalability
by
Taras
on 07/06/2019, 23:24:13 UTC
⭐ Merited by bones261 (2) ,ETFbitcoin (1)
The solution is simple,
Bitcoin needs to make a code change that requires all LN Hubs to run a FULL NODE.
Not the scaled down nodes, like many use, but True FULL nodes with the Full Blockchain stored and letting new users sync the entire blockchain from them.
That doesn't make the solution simple, that makes it impossible. How do you force LN hubs to run a full node? Where do we draw the line between hub and not hub? Do all participants draw that line differently? If you could, as a network, choose not to do business with a node with a large number of channels unless they can also verify it is running on a full node, somehow, what does that do? The hub could divide its channels across several of its own nodes, keeping under the threshold to be considered a "hub". I think this idea is either virtually impossible or useless.