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I read over the article but I'm not entirely sure I understand what they are trying to say.
The incentive is to have essentially free and fast (Trusted 0-Confirmation transaction) transactions that can be "streamed". This simply isn't possible on-chain.
Hubs may open just to make some interest on Coins they are holding even if it's a small amount. Hubs will likely be businesses and their incentive is to be paid by their customer so they will have to have channels open and available to do that, naturally creating a "hub".
Let me know if I'm missing something as I do want to answer your question correctly.
Comment by 6nf at 07/01/2018 at 06:01 UTC
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He's saying hubs won't put coin into a channel to random users because it costs money and there's no guarantee that the channel will get used.
Comment by loremusipsumus at 07/01/2018 at 16:11 UTC
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What was his comment? Can you link? It was removed