THELOGICALINDIAN - A bistro in Switzerland has become the aboriginal in the apple to absolution a selfservice boutique which allows barter to adjustment card items application Bitcoin and the Lightning Network LN
energyKitchen, amid in the country’s basic Bern, has amorphous alms coffee, drinks and aliment items via an online boutique and QR codes amid alfresco its concrete premises.
Arguably one of the simplest consumer-oriented Lightning implementations, the boutique allows Bitcoin holders to pay anon application a Lightning Network-enabled wallet and aggregate in-store.
The apparatus came as a accord amid energyKitchen’s Oliver Grugger and developers from bounded software development aggregation Puzzle ITC.
Uploading anterior capacity on Twitter, Grugger added a video affirmation would arise “soon,” while one acknowledging has already created a representation of the adjustment process.
The apparatus will alone baby to Lightning-enabled wallets, accidental developer Gabriel Comte acknowledging non-Lightning payments with Bitcoin would not be possible.
“Until all wallets will abutment lightning natively – you charge a lightning wallet like eclair from (ACINQ). No on alternation payments accepted,” he wrote on Twitter.
Lightning meanwhile continues to accomplish accelerated advance throughout the ecosystem. A bulk of articles aimed at non-technical consumers has appeared in contempo months, while the admeasurement of the arrangement itself analogously keeps expanding.
At columnist time September 18, Bitcoin mainnet Lightning had a absolute accommodation of 114 BTC ($712,000), breach beyond 3500 nodes with about 12,500 channels.
As Bitcoinist previously reported, advance has accelerated over the summer, with July, in particular, witnessing a affecting uptick in capacity.
At the aforementioned time, development continues to cede user acquaintance as contributors seek to accomplish aegis and axiological processes absolutely absolute above-mentioned to beyond numbers of users advancing on board.
The majority of Lightning payments account over three cents were absurd to complete auspiciously in June, research from cryptocurrency newsletter Diar revealed.
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