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Tony Vay: the BTC price will go as low as 2K as late as 2024.

Who's buying a shitcoin like BTC? It's all fake, Blockstream set up LN clients in the cloud to simulate real users.

LATEST LIGHTNING MAINNET STATS :

Users: 776
Offline Users: 237
IPs: 512
Unique IPs: 483 (Duplicate IPs: 29)
Users/IPs on Cloud Servers: 253
Percentage on Cloud servers: 52%
In order words: More than half of the Lightning Users are on Cloud servers.
BREAKDOWN BY HOSTING PROVIDER

(Cloud providers with less nodes omitted)
["Host Europe GmbH", 2],
["LeaseWeb Netherlands B.V.", 2],
["Choopa, LLC", 4],
["Strato AG", 5],
["Online S.a.s. (Cloud Hosting)", 11],
["Hetzner Online GmbH", 18],
["OVH SAS", 19],
["Amazon.com, Inc. (Cloud Hosting)", 24],
["Google Inc. (Cloud Hosting)", 39],
["Digital Ocean, Inc.", 63],
["Contabo GmbH", 66]]
https://lnmainnet.gaben.win/

Warning: BTC is a scam.
The LN is vaporware, and what you see live and working on the Testnet is actually nothing more than a toy. It's like the model of a spacecraft vs. a prototype.
In any other field, what the LN devs are doing would be called fraud. They are trying to pump the price of a worthless asset by making intentionally misleading claims about future wonderful products, that in fact have absolutely no chance of working.
Imagine Tesla announcing that their new solar-powered sports car is entering final tests, when in fact they have no idea of how to build such a thing, and all they have is a Matchbox-size model with fake solar panels, powered by a wind-up spring.
BTC will take down the whole market with it, don't say I didn't warn you.

Because I bought it.