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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

lightning suffered the same fate as FireWire before it: excellent protocol that would have benefited the users with mass adoption, hampered by Apple and their co-developers (in lightning's case, Intel) charging too steep of licensing fees, rendering them niche