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Rethinking Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Design Through the Lens of Thunderbolt
The Script structure of Bitcoin is extremely conservative, restricting most off-chain interaction scenarios. Its original design was never intended to handle tens of thousands of transactions per second. Yet, practical demands are right in front of us — people want to be able to use Bitcoin, even if just to buy a game skin or tip a video creator, and they don’t want to wait ten minutes for it.