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March 24, 2017, 11:55:05 AM

I have just come up with an absolutely crazy idea. I should probably be shot in the face! So here it is:

SegWit and LN would push a lot of the transactions offchain. So people running LN nodes would collect some fees. Ideally these would be much cheaper than today's on-chain trans fees, but there could be a lot more of them.

What exactly is preventing miners/pools from running LN nodes and earn some tasty fees? Lactose intolerance? Their inability to compile C++11 code? The fact that they have no more space for an extra virtual server for the LN node in their multi football field sized mining farm?

Please enlighten me!

Setting up LN node doesn't require ASICs produced by Bitmain.