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chytrik

07:43

@darkknight related: bitcoin.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1005/…

I don't think that the site's scope should be purely limited to what bitcoin core supports, I'm not sure I see why that would be better

10 hours later…

Pieter Wuille

17:26

According to (my own) answer linked there, I don't see the problem. Lightning is most definitely a technology applicable to supporting the bitcoin currency.

If the rule is only things supported by Bitcoin Core, or the P2P protocol we'd also need to ban:
* Hardware wallets, until recently
* Future developments
* Questions about frameworks / website integrations
* Other wallet software
* Exchanges
* BIP39
* Generic cryptography questions related to key derivation / secp256k1
* Mining (not supported by Bitcoin Core anymore, and doesn't involve the P2P protocol!)
* What attackers can do in various capacities (excluding those involving vulnerabilities in Bitcoin Core)

So I think that would be very restrictive, and in fact require us to close a decent portion of the highest-upvoted answers of all time.

This site isn't and shouldn't be just a Bitcoin Core helpdesk, or protocol documentation.

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Coinnouncer

20:38

Q: When is a question a request for service reviews?

One of our site's closing reason reads: Questions seeking product or service reviews are off-topic because they tend to attract subjective, low-quality, and spam answers. On the other hand, offerings in the Bitcoin space are still evolving rapidly which often renders answers outdated quickly. Fo...