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  What’s more, miners can offer something unique: brand-new, 
  “virgin” coins, which some investors covet. Such coins 
  command a premium of up to 20 percent, according to 
  Travis Kling, founder of the hedge fund Ikigai. It’s 
  easier to prove they’ve not been involved in money-
  laundering operations, he said

  Claiming that we will not be able to solve the routing 
  problem on the lightning network is exactly the same as 
  claiming that we won't be able to solve the routing 
  problem on the Internet. Routing is a solved problem, 
  but is a difficult problem to implement, which is why 
  the clients are in BETA.

  Sealioning (also spelled sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a 
  type of trolling or harassment which consists of 
  pursuing people with persistent requests for evidence or 
  repeated questions, while maintaining a pretense of 
  civility. The troll pretends ignorance and 
  feigns politeness, so that if the target is provoked 
  into making an angry response, the troll can then act as 
  the aggrieved party.

  >A whole world currency that is potentially immune to 
  inflation and government manipulation.

  Protections for Customer Funds Are Often Limited or 
  Illusory. Generally accepted methods for auditing 
  virtual assets do not exist, and trading platforms lack 
  a consistent and transparent approach to independently 
  auditing the virtual currency purportedly in their 
  possession; several do not claim to do any independent 
  auditing of their virtual currency holdings at all. That 
  makes it difficult or impossible to confirm whether 
  platforms are responsibly holding their customers’ 
  virtual assets as claimed. 

  Bitcoin inflation rate per annum: 3.87% 
  USD Current inflation rate for the United States is 

  The obvious worst part of this bug was the inflation 
  exploit. An attack could create new bitcoins at will, 
  exceeding the 21 million hard cap limit that is 
  currently in place. This would absolutely destroy 
  confidence in not only Bitcoin, but every 
  cryptocurrency.


  In addition, a miner could crash every single node they 
  are connected to by producing a block with an invalid 
  transaction in it. Miners are will go out of their way 
  to connect to as many other mining nodes as possible, so 
  they receive notifications of blocks faster.


  Imagine you’re a miner, hashing away at block #1000. 
  Another miner, Jim, finds block #1001 and starts 
  propagating it around the network. However, you’re not 
  connected to Jim, so it takes an extra few seconds for 
  you to receive the block. During those few seconds, the 
  network has moved on and you’re wasting hashpower and in 
  turn money. You need to receive the new block before you 
  get started on the next one.


  All the miners are highly connected, so if one is 
  producing client-crashing blocks, many of the larger 
  miners would be hit.

  Bitcoin inflation rate per annum: 3.87% 
  USD Current inflation rate for the United States is 2.7%.

  Sending payments using the Lightning Network is cheaper 
  than the regular Bitcoin network, but suffers from 
  routing errors and wallet bugs that make it impractical 
  even for highly technical users. [1]