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Transactions on the lightning network have difficulty scaling because each node needs to what compute the entire graph/nodes and setup channels?

A problem which scales even worse the more nodes in play.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoincash/comments/8n9xbp/why_the...

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The lightning node running on my Raspberry Pi doesn't have any trouble finding routes so it can't be too compute-intensive.

Most transactions settle in two seconds or less for a fraction of a cent in fees.

The only knowledge you have of the lightning network is a YouTube video from 3 years ago posted on a subreddit with a financial interest in badmouthing BTC?

So, what is not correct in the video?

Pretty much all of it

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LN has 75k channels right now and 3k BTC locked https://1ml.com/

Did the GP provide any specific reason why LN can't scale other than "here's a link to youtube from 2018?"

I'm not really sure if this is the proof I'm looking for.

The author of the video was explaining how the LN works and it seems to be an exponential routing calculation problem ( similar to traveling salesman )

So while it could work for 75 k channels, it's not going to work for 1 million.

If the explanation of that video is correct (since you didn't disagree that), then how many channels it has now is irrelevant from my POV.

Found this, so i believe it's still a valid problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16155835

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