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Dr. Hax 1y ago

Fun fact: if AWS and Google banned running #lightning nodes it'd take out more than half of the lightning network.

Source: https://mempool.space/lightning

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Derek Ross 1y ago

This is something that Bitcoiners like to give Ethereum shit for, but our most popular Layer 2 is just as centralized.

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Bill Cypher 1y ago

Proud member of the other half.

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Skhron - VPS for Bitcoin, Lightning and Monero 1y ago

Isn't this statistics reflecting only "clearnet only" + "clearnet + darknet" type of nodes? There are much more "darknet only" nodes: https://mempool.space/graphs/lightning/nodes-networks

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Dr. Hax 1y ago

There are more darknet nodes, but they only account for 3.4% of the liquidity.

That's a fair point though, and one that escaped me until you pointed it out.

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Dr. Hax 1y ago

Plus we don't know that the darknet nodes have a different hosting pattern. 50% or more of those could be on AWS/GCP too.