oeleo loves to go to extremes to then explain away why he thinks he should not care about real world things..

it would be better he learn real world things to then work around them.. rather then exagerate things and say there is only 2 opens ignore or run away completely


put it this way.
last year there was a draft law and a certain few of the buddy group. wanted to exagerate the draft bill to scare peole nito thinking it aplied to bitcoin devs, bitcoin miners and bitcoin node users..
. the purpose of the exageration was 2 fold.
a. later when its made clear its not about devs, miners, node users, the exagerators can pretend it was their highlighting of the draft that then triggered a change of the draft(facepalm)
b. to try to scare people away from making other reference clients, to scare people off from using bitcoin

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now here is the thing. the real targets of the draft were users that were acting as mixers, exchages without registering as a business.. oh and here is something that will boil and bubble your shower water.. the bit about (not verbatim)"anyone who facilitates the movement of value for a commision(money/fee) is to be deemed a money facilitator/MSB"
is also directed at LN routers

now you might be pretending this is not able to be regulated..
but lets take away al exageration. all dream utopia and be realistic

LN is not private the gossip defaults show pretty much everything. 1ml has lot of channels easy to search through

but here is the thing. lets take bitrefills and bitfinex.
if regulators were to push into LN.. they can get bitfinex to KYC comply or sever servicing their channel partners who dont comply..
and just like the op process of routing. by the partners then KYC complying and then having to get their channel partners to comply or close channels. soon it all becomes a complient KYC network
where there would be a darker swamp LN network of non compliers passing the parcel between each other but finding it harder to get a link/route path from the swam to the clearnet LN where by they can buy things in LN. because any service that does link to the darknet swamp routes of nodes that dont then KYC makes that service in trouble with regulators

yep.. because LN functions via routes of fee's just to pass the parcel.. makes LN more easy to end up having to follow MSB/MF compliance rules..

where as bitcoins relay network does not ask peers to pay a fee just to peer to peer relay. which is where bitcoin is not affected by that draft. but LN is