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Great, so let's use a... separate system... with none of the advantages associated with a cryptocurrency to do actual transactions.

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https://lightning.network/

Why would anyone use a complex disaster that people are avoiding like the plague when they could just use other cryptocurrencies that didn't intentionally cripple their throughput to sell that hacky second layer?

Ethereum dwarfs everything else in transaction volume and bitcoin cash has already consistently passed bitcoin in transactions per day.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactions-btc-eth-bc...

My criticism was in direct response to the lightning network.

Surely you understand how "with none of the advantages associated with a cryptocurrency" could make it seem like you were referring to Coinbase batching (since that's centralized). How exactly does Lightning negate any of bitcoins advantages?

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