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How is Lightning not a blockchain system?

It depends on a blockchain?



Yes, the lightning network is built on top of Bitcoin and depends on it but the transactions happen "off-chain". I was just making a generic claim about payment processors that enable "off-chain" BTC transactions, from the decentralized ones like Lightning to the completely centralized ones like Paypal.




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