I don´t get this answer. Linden needs not underwrite any micropayment inside it´s silo?
The only utility in LN is hopefully retaining decentralized properties of bitcoin. PokerStars, Linden & WoW have supported micropayments for a long time?
Im not sure why any of these services could not grow 10x and still function internally? They are already servicing tens of millions.
is this actually true? I use libtorrent, would be interested to learn how exactly it is easier? Is it mainly due to avoiding C++? Is IPFS implementation stable enough?
I presume that over time, the price of any piece of content will be competed down to the cost of bandwidth, which I guess is quite a bit cheaper than 10x/GB? So yes, initially, higher prices can be charged, but then as more seeders stick around, there will be price competition.