Comment by astrogreens on 22/12/2017 at 01:30 UTC

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View submission: Lightning CEO Elizabeth Stark on Bloomberg, Discussing Lightning Network and the Future of Bitcoin

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Honest (probably dumb) question. If the company lightning labs goes out of business is lightning network gone then too? Would implementing lighting network make it centralized and easier to hack or get shut down by governments?

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Comment by starkbot at 22/12/2017 at 01:48 UTC

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Nope. There are 3+ implementations and they're all open source. None of the companies involved run the network. It's peer-to-peer.