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Re: The Lightning Network FAQ
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Wind_FURY
on 09/08/2020, 06:28:13 UTC
Afaik the lightning network currently supports the 15th decimal place...

Cute, but unless BTC is worth $10 million what does that realistically achieve? Where are you going to spend $0.0000000002?


Apps in Lightning for streaming data, and paying by the minute/3 minutes/5 minutes? Plus the macro-economics of Bitcoin does point it to a price-discovery to 6 digits, and maybe 7 digits.

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Does that have a practical use case besides being a proof of concept?


It didn't stop Bitcoin from being developed. Here we are.