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> If you've been kicking yourself about not getting into Bitcoin early - you have a new opportunity with Lightning now. Why not just delete the rest of your po
by spookthesunset 9y ago
> If you've been kicking yourself about not getting into Bitcoin early - you have a new opportunity with Lightning now.
Why not just delete the rest of your post and just leave this? This once sentence is what really drives all of the rest of your breathless hype. Naked greed. It's the only thing the entire crypto "space" has.
Lightning network is pure vaporware. It was "coming any day now" when Mt Gox collapsed. It's still coming soon. It will always be coming soon.
- nikcub 9y agoYou'll be happy to hear then that a lot of progress has been made on Lightning since MtGox imploded I probably should have linked to these from my original comment - rather than removing anything Specifically with lnd the lightning daemon[0], BOLT's (the equivalent of Bitcoin BIP's) 1 through to 11 have been implemented in the core daemon[1] There is also the Neutrino light client[2] (screenshot [3]) Far from being vaporware - you're only a few docker commands away from trying it out yourself[4] [0] https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd [1] https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc [2] https://github.com/lightninglabs/neutrino https://github.com/lightninglabs/neutrino [3] https://blog.lightning.engineering/assets/images/app-chans-good.png https://blog.lightning.engineering/assets/images/app-chans-g... [4] https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/tree/master/docker#connect-to-faucet-lightning-node https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/tree/master/docker#c...
- DonHopkins 9y agoThis sounds just like a 15-year-old ad for Perl 6.
- skellera 9y agoBitcoin is the multi-level marketing of millennials.
- SirLJ 9y agoSpot on!
- mrhappyunhappy 9y agoI don't know how you are not ashamed to state something so stupid.