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Speed? No, not really in comparison to any other LN implementation.

But Stellar will be supporting state channels in addition to payment channels, (presumably) allowing for even faster exchange operations (buy/sell market and limit orders) and path payments across multiple currencies, neither of which LN on Bitcoin can do (at least for now).

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Also you can send inordinately small amounts, practically, with stellar/ln. The smallest unit of measure in Bitcoin, one satoshi, is already 1/110th of penny! It would cost you more than that to send it to someone and you would have trouble doing a million of those per second. This exact concept was used as a ddos of sorts to slow down legitimate Bitcoin transactions.

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