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[brown9-2]

Why? What service actually transfers your money instantly? None does.

[zepolen → brown9-2]

Cryptocurrency.

[serf → zepolen]

which ones?

btc transfers are pretty far from instant, by design.

[zepolen → serf]

Nano. Feeless, instant and energy efficient.

[thinkmassive → serf]

On chain, sure, but Lightning is pretty close to instant

[Vecr → thinkmassive]

Yeah, but with lightning you really need enough value along the network path(s) to execute a transaction, possibly causing a similar thing as this to happen. I still think it would be an improvement though, as enthusiastic buyers could expand the network and get their buys through.

[ric2b → Vecr]

> Yeah, but with lightning you really need enough value along the network path(s) to execute a transaction, possibly causing a similar thing as this to happen.

It's atomic, it either completes 100% or it fails, there's no partial state where the money gets stuck in one of the middle-nodes.