Bitcoin's Highly Anticipated 'Lightning Network' Goes Live (thehill.com)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday March 15, 2018 @06:30AM from the eyes-wide-open dept.

Lightning Labs on Thursday announced the beta release of its highly-anticipated Lightning Network Daemon (LND), a developer-friendly software client used to access Bitcoin's Lightning Network, anonymous readers wrote, citing media reports. From a report: Bitcoin supporters believe that the network has the potential to help the cryptocurrency achieve mass adoption. Bitcoin has struggled in recent months with slow and high-fee transactions, which make it harder for bitcoin to achieve mainstream popularity. Lightning Labs, the company behind the network, also announced on Thursday that it has received investments from major financial technology players, including Square chief executive and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and PayPal chief operating officer David Sacks.

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Re:Ransoms and contraband by eepok · 2018-03-15 07:09 · Score: 3, Funny

Very slick, Officer AC. Very slick indeed.
Re: Ransoms and contraband by sheramil · 2018-03-15 08:48 · Score: 3, Funny

Hmmm. one Anonymous Coward says the service has been compromised.. and another Anonymous Coward says it's fine. What should I do? I suppose I could pay yet another Anonymous Coward some real money for some pretend money and send it to some other Anonymous Coward in the hope he might send me some illegal drugs. What could possibly go wrong?