THELOGICALINDIAN - The Lightning Network mainnet has broadcast above 500 nodes while its testnet accomplishing now hosts added nodes than Bitcoin Cash
The amazing abstracts – 566 mainnet and 1720 testnet nodes at columnist time – appear as an accretion cardinal of users and commentators akin agreement abutment of Lightning, admitting anxiety about the robustness of its mainnet security.
Bitcoinist ahead appear on fledging LN mainnet attendance aftermost month, with its bulge calculation hitting 40 on January 18 and passing 100 by January 22.
At the time, critics including Bitcoin.org’s Cobra said it was brash to cycle out payments as bugs and added dangers could still exist, arch to accident of money.
Andreas Antonopoulos connected the cautionary tone, alike suggesting that above exchanges such as Coinbase “won’t run” Lightning due to the technology actuality fundamentally at allowance with their AML/KYC obligations.
In February, however, amusing media continues to fizz with more absolute affect apropos LN’s boilerplate future.
Commenting on what he declared as the “truly amazing” clip of growth, Armin Van Bitcoin fostered achievement that Coinbase’s admission SegWit accomplishing would facilitate Lightning affairs extensive a far added audience.
The abstracts on nodes meanwhile surfaced backward aftermost ages address of a allegory from broker and administrator Alistair Milne.
As improvements to Lightning abide this anniversary with atomic multi-path payments, Antonopoulos remained bullish on the technology itself, anecdotic the advances as “brilliant” in their adeptness to “further (increase) aloofness and decentralization.”
Meanwhile, non-cryptocurrency media is alpha to aces up on what rumors affirmation will be a above benefaction to Bitcoin’s scalability.
In an article Monday, Ars Technica declared LN as “a way out of the bind” of bereft arrangement capacity.
“A growing cardinal of bitcoin enthusiasts accept that Lightning is the approaching of the network. This year we’ll alpha to acquisition out if they’re right,” the advertisement concluded.
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