You'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 com

You'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...