Custodial Bitcoin Lightning Network wallet Alby has started confiscating user funds, labeled as an "inactivity fee"! 😵💫
Allegedly, terms of service were recently updated to allow the company to seize customer funds on custodial accounts that haven't had a payment in 12+ months. Apparently, some customers had funds seized just weeks after receiving an email notification.
Here's their terms of service:
This is what happens when you reinvent the banking system: you get bank-like inactivity fees and seizures.
Years ago, I predicted that Lightning would both trend custodial, and end up actually being expensive, since infrastructure providers have to pay their bills somehow. Looks like I was right.
And remember: there's no such thing as fully-noncustodial Lightning, and the closer in that direction you get, the worse the user experience gets.
Here's the video I did on Lightning turning out expensive a few years ago:
And here's an article from CryptoSlate on the Alby situation.
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Wow! Penalty for inactivity. I wonder what will happen if developers add such a code here on Hive. 😆
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This is utterly unsurprising. Other than the adoption level and some extra privacy, I don't have anything good to say about Lightning Network. If a cryptocurrency needs centralization and custodial services to be usable for normies, it won't create any real impact. I really wish Dash will get the attention it deserve.
Working on that part.
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