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“If you don’t believe it or don’t get it, I don’t have the time to try to convince you, sorry.”
- Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of #Bitcoin
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The hilarious thing about people using that quote is that Satoshi was wrong about the thing he was discussing.
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How was the response wrong? Bitcoin has functional light clients. They may have been right about 0-conf but it's not the approach Bitcoin took.
You can even run your own Lightning node as a light client via Neutrino which is the approach used by non-custodial Lightning wallets.
Satoshi intended to have support for payment channels and included features with the intention of supporting it in the early releases. Should look at en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Payment_c. Satoshi's plans for payment channels very closely resemble private channel (no routing) Lightning.
If we go by the consensus, Satoshi was wrong about 0conf.