There seems to be a chicken and egg problem with lightning. When I make a new channel it says I can only receive the amount on a channel that I have spent down. So how did the first address get spent down enough to receive the first lightning tokens?
Also writing that previous sentence made me wonder, for that matter, what is the correct terminology for these things? If we are just going to call them bitcoins like there is no distinction between the bitcoins on the main net and these frequently renegotiated contractual obligations on the lightning network? Is that reasonable? When I make a new channel it says I can only receive the amount on a channel that I have spent down. So how did the first address get spent down enough to receive the first lightning tokens?
Everything is settled down once someone decides to close the channel. The biggest issue right now is that channel limits how much you can spend. Split payments are a planned feature.

If you are concerned about your security, either get a dedicated offline computer only for crypto storage. You will need to learn how to create raw transactions, move them to your offline machine, sign them, move them to your online pc and broadcast them.Trading platforms are not safer to store our coins but many exchanges offering some security to their wallets like 2FA,which can save the hack attacks but can't from exchanges hack attack that is why better to move your funds after trade completed.

It makes you think that blockchain, If it can be used anywhere, can be injected in such an analytical field like digital advertising?
There are lots of bugs and bots out there to cheat the whole system and make money side by side for the publishers. It can only stop duplicate amount of fraud clicks/impressions, but cannot be that sufficient to remove those bugs or stop bots from looting the advertising media as blockchain is not what you've mentioned it for.

Bitcoin may not be perfect but it's good enough. Maybe next will destroy all.

However, these experts also fail to weight in the positive impact of bitcoin in the society if ever it becomes mainstream. All eyes are focused on the negatives while completely ignoring the positives. Mining does not threaten our very existence, petty trash talks from different political leaders do. Over-harvesting of natural resources does more harm than bitcoin mining. Economist or even experts I don't really care what they have to say when it comes to bitcoin's value. No one can predict its movement in the market and those FUD will always come if the market is bearish. We have lots of emotional investors coming in everyday hoping that their investments in bitcoin will make them rich.

Paypals one of the most crooked services on the planet. You have zero control of your money with paypal. Just because people are used to getting fucked in the ass by our financial infrastructure doesn't mean it shouldn't change. I think you can get that feature in the local Bitcoin site. Most of the people do not like the great that balance for Paypal balance because it can be reversed and that's an issue.

I think have them as my asset would be good for my future investment and gold will never lost the value and gold also will never be lack of interest and bitcoin had through plenty process which makes this digital currency will be so valuable for me even bitcoin have good potential to grow more than now in the future so in my view have both of them as my asset will ensure my investment growing from year to year. This comparison is meaningless. Gold is only a kind of exchange, of course, it is valuable, but it also has shortcomings, not easy to carry and not be easily divided. The investment in bitcoin is very unstable, and bitcoin can also change our future life and change some of the inherent patterns.

Bitcoin has seen challenging time at the beginning of the year but I guess that is over now. I think that large investors expect the regulator, as something will be decided by law, will begin a gold rush for coins.

Why people would come to a bitcoin forum to talk shit about bitciin is beyond me. If you do not like the technology, go troll somewhere else.

My sweet experience in bitcoin is when l have a big value of payments before because the price is very expensive/high.l really enjoy the day to have a big payment.But for now its bitter because my tokens have no value. Actually, the ups and downs movements of bitcoin are may considered as a bitter and sweet experiences because it can may cause of loosing our investments of winning it or becoming a successful investment.

I think there are lots of other altcoins that make project about using coin to purchase ingame item and collaborate with them,  But I dont think it's possible to collaborate with bigger scale corporation such as Apple or Google yet.

With increased public demand and continuous persuasion by the organizations that are submitting bitcoin ETF proposal, It is very much likely that SEC will be forced to accept it if someone comes up with framework that is not prone to manipulation, fraudulent activities.

Yes, bitcoin prossesors is more important because of bitcoin demand is huge and need to more prossesors like coinbase because this is more famous.

 Blockchain is a open source information platform, but it doesn't gives social feedback and support with it, many projects are based on supporting each other with blockchain project.

The people who put bitcoin on more tended just as an investment, it could be the one of the reasons that bitcoin is in the majority as an investment gambling.

Actions thus far indicate an interest in encouraging blockchain technology and the growth of crypto, but not at the expense of safety and security. This is a sign that cryptocurrency is a very potential market and it will grow strongly in the future.

It is also true that bitcoin works as a real money. For bitcoin is an invesment that has the greatest risk, but it will also be very profitable. For digital currency especially bitcoin is good invesment in the future because it is very promising. Bitcoin is constantly making progress.

Good news! It is this type of marketing that bitcoin needs, serious and reputable companies accepting as payment. Bitcoin is the currency of the future that we will use later and be prepared. That was exciting.

For sure they are already having some feasibility studies of hardware digital wallet that can store bitcoins. And this business is so big, It will make the smartphone manufacturer's get more money.

For me it's cunning and gaining authority in every country, banks will always be there because they are so important. The banks would be the hero of a centralized crypto, but banks are not going anywhere.