Soon bitconicore will launch the Lightning Network.

It is a legacy concept drawn from the fiat world where not all monetary properties originate in the same monetary tier due to some deficiencies in the indigenous monetary token that render it less than perfect.

That will be a very significant milestone because it will finally demonstrate that instant transactions (for example) and erasability of history are in fact a priority and have been all along.

Only, Lightning is not a property of the bitcoin blockchain.

It does not enhance (in terms of monetary properties), nor scale, the bitcoin blockchain. Furthermore, its arrival puts into stark contrast the monetary properties of a natively scaleable, natively fungible, publicly transparent blockchain vs a paralysed one that is none of those things and requires a proprietary, corporately owned and run external infrastructure that trades trusted-party promissory notes in place of bearer tokens.

That is the real "wow'. Not the number of masternodes.

(P.S. Just like Bitconi, Gold was too slow to confirm also. So it had a 'lightning network' of its own created known as an 'ETF' where people could just trade promissory notes instead of actual gold bars. The 'bearer token' stayed in the vaults except there was simply less and less of it around and more and more of the paper. At least the paper was fast ).