LN is not activated yet.
It's not a soft fork, so it doesn't activate. Your statement therefore doesn't make any sense
So what's the right term to use here? And why the term 'activate' can only be used for soft forks?
English isn't my first language so I want you to help me a bit here :3
Lightning is already running, but still in a beta form. The UX is fairly clunky and there are potential bugs in the various implementations. It's not ready for mainstream use yet.
I get that, if it was ready it would be "out?" (since I can't say activated :p ) already.
Even when LN is activated I don't know if it would solve things up.
The transaction capacity of Lightning is only really limited by it's BTC capacity & it's routing resolution. As long as the incentives work out, it could be so widely used that scaling will rival incumbent payment networks (Mastercard, Amex etc) and completely eclipse SWIFT. How much more capacity could Bitcoin need than that?
I read that:
Lightning is 180 times (17,900%) more efficient than basic Bitcoin.
But please help me with this question, will LN be available for the normal user with a small internet bandwidth? or does it require certain setup?