THELOGICALINDIAN - The additional abundance of the acclaimed Bitcoin Lightning Bake has not been as acknowledged as its aboriginal goaround aftermost year In aloof 8 canicule the bake has already been baseborn 4 times by backbiting participants
Your Bitcoin can calmly be taken if you accelerate it to a thief
Bitcoin’s additional Lightning Torch has been baseborn 4 times by assorted bearding Twitter associates with an absorption in Bitcoin. The Lightning Torch is a bold area a actor sends a Lightning Network transaction to added participants about the globe. The actor again adds some Satoshis to the aboriginal transaction bulk and passes it on to addition participant. The bold was originally devised as a way to analysis Lightning Network activity and approach transaction limits.
This time around, the bake has been baseborn by beneath accurate participants several times. In adjustment to accumulate it going, the participants who anesthetized it to the thieves accept replaced the funds out of their own pockets, and again resent it to addition added accurate participant. This annexation has about accomplished meme status, as Hodlonaut credibility out, with the consecutive thefts about absolutely actuality copycats.
The thefts do highlight the weakness of trust-based systems, and the short-comings of application a trust-minimized technology like Bitcoin in a address which still requires assurance in a third-party. The association of Lightning Network enthusiasts batten out adjoin the thieves and thanked the participants who replaced the baseborn funds out of pocket, in assorted posts aural the thread.
The aboriginal Lightning Torch admiring a lot of attention
The aboriginal time around, the Lightning Torch admiring a lot of attention. Abounding acclaimed Bitcoiners participated, including Jack Dorsey, the architect of Twitter and Square, forth with Miss Universe Rosa-MariaRyyti, Andreas Antonopoulos, and abounding added able-bodied accepted Bitcoiners.
The aboriginal Lightning Torch was anesthetized about after any incidents of theft, and the money calm was donated to Venezuela, which is currently adversity a hyper-inflationary collapse of the nation’s currency, the Bolivar.
In the aboriginal Lightning Bake event, participants anniversary added 10,000 Satoshis, afore casual the lightning bake to addition participant. Over 5 actor Satoshis were aloft and donated by the end of the event.
In one of the added allegorical moments of the aboriginal Lighnting Torch, an Iranian Bitcoiner anesthetized the bake forth to an Israeli Bitcoiner in a gesture of peace. This accurate transaction came at a moment back both nations were in the account due to political turmoil.
The contempo issues with annexation for the additional Lightning Torch accept fabricated some Bitcoiners amend if the change of the agreement has beat off already. Even admitting the annexation itself is a abrogating accident surrounding the additional Lightning Torch, some die-hard Bitcoiners still see it as bullish for Bitcoin that bodies are aggravating to runoff with the balance.
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