Quote from: raven7886 on December 11, 2017, 05:00:56 PM

Quote from: bribed on December 06, 2017, 08:28:47 PM

As long as bitcoin is only looked at as a commodity and nobody is willing to spend their Bitcoin, also lightning network wont change much (besides of hype and therefore price increase). People need to remember what Bitcoins intention was when it was born. We should stop looking at Bitcoin as a commodity and start using it as a currency, then lightning network will be able to enfold its power and bring real benefits. Just my two cents, but I think this is important.

Bitcoin is being looked at as commodity now because that is exactly what it looks like. People will still spend and there would always be so much more services that would be in play in the long run which would make bitcoin even more usable. Now with the LN, micro transactions would be easy and as long as I can use bitcoin to get a cup of coffee, then tell me how we won't get better.

Well, it happened just in time and although I do not know the details or the results of that test, that is, if they were completely favorable, that makes it clear that BTC can implement improvements or increase capabilities in a way that does not affect its core and properly but can give an increase in its capabilities to make transactions in the same way as its closest competitors, now, if the test was successful maybe they will not take long to put it into practice.