Interesting. I thought Lightning was a fork like BTC Cash, not a feature compatible with BTC itself.
On another note I just noticed it’s gotten harder to buy Monero in the EU, at least Kraken no longer offers them (damned money laundering, sadly the laws are necessary). Luckily thanks to legalization I no longer use it.
Lightning is indeed NOT a fork of a Bitcoin, it’s essentially a Layer 2 for Bitcoin (if you think in terms of the Internet’s TCP/IP model). It solves pretty much every use case created by any Altcoin when competing with Bitcoin, as Bitcoin chose security and decentralization over scalibility in its base layer (on-chain).
As for buying Monero, I only deal with Bitcoin, but I’m pretty sure you can easily buy Monero still as long as you don’t use centralised exchanges (permissioned), and instead use Decentralised ones (permissionless). That’ll be the case for any altcoin that still has decent popularity for the foreseeable.
Not exactly. Lightning makes it super cheap and instant.
Interesting. I thought Lightning was a fork like BTC Cash, not a feature compatible with BTC itself.
On another note I just noticed it’s gotten harder to buy Monero in the EU, at least Kraken no longer offers them (damned money laundering, sadly the laws are necessary). Luckily thanks to legalization I no longer use it.
Lightning is indeed NOT a fork of a Bitcoin, it’s essentially a Layer 2 for Bitcoin (if you think in terms of the Internet’s TCP/IP model). It solves pretty much every use case created by any Altcoin when competing with Bitcoin, as Bitcoin chose security and decentralization over scalibility in its base layer (on-chain).
As for buying Monero, I only deal with Bitcoin, but I’m pretty sure you can easily buy Monero still as long as you don’t use centralised exchanges (permissioned), and instead use Decentralised ones (permissionless). That’ll be the case for any altcoin that still has decent popularity for the foreseeable.