Back in November 2008, James A. Donald became the first person to publicly respond to Satoshi Nakamoto on the cryptography mailing list.
His feedback was clear and simple: the blockchain design doesn't scale and the bitcoin currency requires a fast network like BitTorrent. With this comment, James A. Donald foresaw the creation of the Lightning network – Bitcoin's second layer, which took another 9 years to get launched ⚡
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