These Bitcoin skeptics want to kill Wikipedia’s Lightning page

Bitcoin’s ledger may be immutable, but that won’t stop its name being scrubbed from the internet’s foremost record of life on Earth, Wikipedia. The Wikipedia entry for the Bitcoin Lightning Network is being considered for deletion.

Should the Wikipedia page be deleted by the time you read this article, the Bitcoin Lightning Network is a network that handles bitcoin transactions without having to first verify them on the blockchain. With Lightning, verification times are sped up and more transactions can take place simultaneously.

Proponents for the deletion argue that the subject is obscure and its supporting references spurious. “The Lightning Network article at the moment is pretty badly referenced, and it’s not intrinsically unreasonable to look at it and go ‘more crypto spam’ and nominate it for deletion,” Wikipedia moderator David Gerard, who’s argued for the deletion of page, and authored Attack of the 50 foot blockchain, told Decrypt.

The debate is still…