THELOGICALINDIAN - A Lightning Network LN application Bitcoins testnet bill tbtc has on Saturday auspiciously performed a realworld transaction at the Room77 bar in Berlin
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Room77’s Test
Located in Germany’s ‘Bitcoin city’ of Kreuzberg, Room77 is the aboriginal bar/restaurant in Berlin to acquire bitcoin for payments. The accepted alliance for Bitcoiners has been demography the agenda bill directly, with aught confirmations, for several years. On Saturday, Room77’s buyer Joerg Platzer announced on Reddit:
Making the affirmation that the Lightning Network is working, he appear that Room77 is “accepting testnet bill tonight for beers if they are actuality beatific via the Lightning Network to our Lightning node”. With Lightning, he explained that affairs access in milliseconds instead of the accepted seconds, or possibly account such as back barter use Coinbase.
“As a merchant, I can acquaint you that every merchant on the planet wants this stuff”, he claimed, abacus that Bitcoin can now “live up to its promises in commendations to efficiency, speed, irreversibility and aloofness no amount how abounding bodies will use it”.
Benefits of Lightning Networks
In his Reddit thread, Platzer listed several added allowances which he believes will be credible already LNs are deployed on the capital Bitcoin network. He mentioned that double-spend attacks, including the abominable replace-by-fee procedure, won’t bother merchants anymore. Malleability attacks, too, would be “a affair of the past”.
He additionally believes that “massively avant-garde privacy” for both merchants and barter will become a standard since both parties on a LN can alone see the affairs on their own acquittal channel. Moreover, Platzer accepted LNs’ adeptness to “offer free-of-cost payments to our customers”, due to the acutely low fees answerable aural already-opened acquittal channels.
The First Lightning Beer Buyer
The beer’s client in this celebrated transaction was LN developer Olaolu “Roasbeef” Osuntokun, who helped advance the actual lnd client acclimated for the beer’s payment. “In this instance we acclimated lnd to accomplish the payment”, Roasbeef told Redditors. “We’ll be absolution a GUI [Graphical User Interface] for lnd appealing anon here, so that’ll accessible up the gates for beneath abstruse users to alpha messing about with Lightning”.
Some photos were additionally acquaint to the Reddit cilia previewed the GUI for their LN client, including server and adaptable apps.
Roasbeef explained that “even after a GUI appear for lnd, we’ve started to see an up-tick in developer action for those developing applications on top of Lightning”. The coder added that addition developer has already created a “slack tip-bot on Lightning”, which behaves like the now-defunct Changetip but exists absolutely over LN acquittal channels. Osuntokun noted:
Sizes of LN Transactions Revealed
This testing gave Roasbeef and several added developers at the accident a adventitious to see how LN affairs would behave ‘in the wild,’ in a absolute aliment industry setting. One takeaway the developer acclaimed was the baby admeasurement of the arrangement affairs that were acclimated to accessible and close lnd channels.
The transaction that adjourned the acquittal approach was “comprised of one hop” of the 
overall acquittal which Roasbeef sent, he described. It was a absolute of 257 bytes in size, which is archetypal for a Bitcoin transaction. In the future, back abounding Lightning acquittal channels accept been deployed, this antecedent transaction would not be fabricated at the time of payment, but instead fabricated while ambience up the wallet or signing up with added types of service. Afterward, users would accumulate the transaction accessible for weeks or years, according to the Lightning Network documentation.
On the added ancillary of the transaction, aback closing a acquittal channel, the admeasurement was hardly beyond at 335 bytes, “due to spending the multi-sig output”, he explained. Amid the two affairs recorded on the blockchain, “high volumes” of payments with “exceptionally low fees” can go aback and alternating amid the two parties as able-bodied as the bodies that they are affiliated with, the Lightning Network affidavit details.
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