So BCH is just a scam right?

>are now untraceable.
on a public blockchain... these cashies are serious brainlets

It is trustless. Do you know what trustless means?

How is a 3rd party monitoring payment channels trustless?

Money Laundering Bitcoin Style: “Segregated Witness”

On August 23, 2017, after two years of debate, Bitcoin officially adopted Segregated Witness, a technology that was arguably designed to boost blockchain capacity.However, much of the developer community felt so strongly that the security compromise outweighed the purported benefits of SegWit that they forked a new currency called Bitcoin Cash on August 1st, 2017. Bitcoin Cash forked ahead of the SegWit adoption in order to preserve the intended purpose of Bitcoin as a decentralized, secure currency.

So why did the developers oppose SegWit?

This excellent Bitcrust post explains that SegWit shifts the incentives to miners away from verifying transaction signatures – which creates the opportunity for aforementioned mystery hackers to spend their 184 billion bitcoin.

If the miners no longer validate transaction signatures, then it doesn’t matter that transaction 74638 failed to achieve the requisite 120 confirmations. Just like our briefcase of dirty money, these counterfeit bitcoin can be spent like any other provided that someone helps them spend it.

Requires full validating nodes to validate your PoW, otherwise it's as going into the middle of a desert and making an huge useless hole and presenting this as PoW, yet you want to give the ability to aknowledge what is or isnt a valid block to the same people doing the holes in the desert. You are completely fucking retarded.

>Actually retarded.
Cope, your boy Roger is on record claiming he would be fine with a dozen nodes globaly.

you can't be this god damn stupid
just look at a basic bitcoin transactions and follow it back to the block it was rewarded in

Because decisionmaking power is still 100% delegated to the network. There's an economic incentive for 3rd party channel sheriffs to catch fraudulent behavior and transmit a proof-of-fraud smart contract transaction to the network so that the person being defrauded in return gets THE ENTIRE LN CHANNEL BALANCE and the sheriff who caught it gets a portion of that, fee level agreed upon either by the LN ecosystem or the user upon entering the channel

This also provides a decentralization pressure since if someone creates an LN node with a 1,000 BTC channel balance and they try to defraud someone by fraudulently transmitting an early channel balance, the node host will literally lose their 1,000 BTC and it will go to the person they tried to defraud. So channels will be split apart and this "big bank node" meme will NOT happen, and if it does happen you will know FOR A FACT that those big nodes will be 100% secure since they do NOT want to risk their entire channel balance

you run your own LN node, or you have the option to allow a 3rd party to watch it for you
there's a scale of completely trust less to somewhat trust less to trusting a service provider

Roger is unironically a brainlet

>Requires full validating nodes to validate your PoW

Which is what mining is. If you're not mining you dont do anything useful for the network and only create more hops weakening network security.