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sonoffett | 8 years ago

You do realize that there are literally people buying coffee in meatspace today using lightning?

https://twitter.com/alexbosworth/status/955870434230132736

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tobltobs|8 years ago

From your link:

> but it's just a test version so it could easily break.

> There’s no mainnet wallets available for regular users, but you can try testnet.

> This is all a work in progress,

Somewhere in a lab on this planet they might have a flying car, that doesn't mean you can use one any time soon.

stale2002|8 years ago

The literal lightning network developers do not recommend that you use lighting right now because you could lose money.

When the actual devs tell me not to use a buggy, in working, piece of software, I am going to listen to them.

zerostar07|8 years ago

is it being used to transfer funds from one exchange to the other? because tbh that seems to be the #1 utility of cryptocoins at the moment.