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Hot BTC Reddit topics:

• An 83-year-old depositor of the troubled PMC Bank died with his family claiming that it could not raise money for his heart surgery due to restrictions on fund withdrawals. This is the fourth reported death of a depositor.
• Peter R. Rizun: “If you’ve tried LN, you’ll know that payments often fail and those that succeed can feel slow. @Snyke collected statistics to quantify this (90% succeed after 30s and 4 attempts). Centralizing around a backbone of interconnected, reliable & liquid hubs should improve these stats”
• Peter R. Rizun: "I have dedicated—and will continue to dedicate—years of my life to help scale bitcoin to a global currency and payment system. But putting your head in the sand and ignoring real performance measurements like these recent statistics for LN transactions will not help."