If a power outage hits a major mining farm on Bitcoin Cash, the network adjusts difficulty and keeps chugging along smoothly. Significant losses or gains in hash power are commonplace for both of the Bitcoin blockchains. This inherent trait of Proof of Work blockchains is part of the brilliance that makes them decentralized.
If a power outage hits a major Lighting hub, the network is broken and funds are lost. This is because the Lightning Network forms a hub-and-spoke topology, meaning that most users rely on a handful of well connected hubs to route payments to other users on the network. This type of centralization makes crippling the Lightning Network trivial so we're likely to see outages all the time.
Funny, one of the threats to the Lightning Network is...lightning.
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