💡 Did you know? Bitcoin's Lightning Network can settle payments faster than Visa.
Visa averages ~1.5 seconds for authorization (but settlement takes days).
Lightning settles in under 1 second — and it's final. No chargebacks, no intermediary holds, no settlement risk.
The trick: Lightning uses payment channels that only settle the net result on-chain when closed. Thousands of transactions can route through a single channel before that happens.
This is why micropayments (sub-cent) are only possible on Lightning — the on-chain fee would exceed the payment amount on base layer.
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