On: The Lightning Network: Turning Bitcoin into Money

[WinstonSmith84]

Quote to take maybe with a pinch of salt. Having been smart enough to invent Bitcoin, one could assume that Satoshi knew that waiting 10 minutes for a block time to be finalized along with a speed of 7tx/s was not going to be practical to go shopping ... regardless of tx fees. Something had to be invented, and this was just not there at the time of this whitepaper

[cowtools → WinstonSmith84]

Okay, so decrease block times or increase block sizes then. Satoshi was not afraid of hard forks.

[Geee → cowtools]

Payment channels were originally suggested by Satoshi. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Payment_channels

[freeAgent → Geee]

He also suggested raising the block size limit.

[stonogo → WinstonSmith84]

So why didn't he write that instead of being so smart that he knew his followers would retroactively put those words in his mouth? Why not just take him literally and interpret his writings at face value?

[freeAgent → WinstonSmith84]

Satoshi did not implement the block size cap until well after the whitepaper and initial release of working Bitcoin software.