Lightening network?

[AnarchicCluster]

So it has come to my attention that Bitcoin is trying to solve their scalability problems with something called the lightening network. Do you have any thoughts on it?

www.coindesk.com/could-the-bitcoin-lightning-network-solve-blockchain-scalability/

Whitepaper:http://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper-DRAFT-0.5.pdf
How solid technology is it?

 

[Sub-Ether]

What incentive is there to create a large off chain network required for lightning when even the normal bitcoin node count is decreasing?

 

[Sub-Ether]

And some good comments, never heard of a exit scam before.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/debunking-the-most-stubborn-lightning-network-myths-1444837807


Lucko Aaron • 2 days ago:-

''OK image you have blocks that are 99% of the time full. Big number of a transactions are offchain. Fees are like 0.1 to 0.5 BTC.

You have a Payment Canal (PC) open to Alice and you need to pay to Bob. You find a way to pay to Bob over Joe. Joe is a big player with a lot of BTC. Since you need a lot of BTC to run a lot of transactions he is controlling 10% of all traffic since it is smart to have PC open to him. Now he stops playing by the rules. It might be his idea to do this or he is hacked. Something... I was only paying Bob 0.001 BTC. So to get my 0.001BTC back I need to pay 0.1 to 0.5BTC fee. Will I do it? No. PC to Alice(she was not the one that is responsible for that) is more impotent then 0.001BTC and it even makes no sense since I would loss money... Now imagen that this has not happen just to me but to 10% of LN. Even if we would dump all to blockchain too small blocks will not process all till locktime is over and he could run with also part of that money... Would it be worth it. I don't know. Is that an attack vector. I think it is.''