Competition

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The Lightning Network is not the only possible solution to a payment system and Layer-1 (e.g. Bitcoin) scaling. There are alternative technologies to Lightning that try to achieve similar goals (e.g. a payment system, scaling) and are competing with the Lightning Network.

Lightning Alternatives, Lightning Competition

  • On-chain scaling through large blocks, as planned e.g. for Bitcoin Unlimited and the 1-Gigabyte Block project
  • StarkPay, When Lightning STARKs

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