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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: When will the lightning network activate?
by
User365
on 22/12/2017, 14:03:28 UTC
Reviving this because this: https://blockchain.info/de/tx/4777bde78c0d0aeefe76115857414efdec71bc239ecf0a6f1886691575909716 is a joke and I read the LN is already tested on the test chain.

I really like the ideology and concept of BTC and I am definitely no BCH supporter, BUT btc needs scaling. I know BTC has died a lot of times but now I think it could get serious.

Why do I think so?

Amazon and eBay are both seriously considering adding cryptos (not bitcoin, cryptos) as payment.

At the moment I think BTC would be a really bad solution (won´t pay 10$ for some X-mas present and buy 20$ fee on Amazon).

--> If Amazon and/or eBay adds some crypto I think at the moment the best solution would be ripple. 1500 tx/sec vs 3 tx/sec AND if ripple would be accepted by one of those, it would go to the moon and leave BTC behind, end of story  Sad

OR LN finally comes to us and BTC might be again a currency.

Pls share your thoughts and share if you have knowledge of the current state of the LN