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You do realize that there are literally people buying coffee in meatspace today using lightning? https://twitter.com/alexbosworth/status/955870434230132736 htt

• zerostar07 9y 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.
• tobltobs 9y 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 9y 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.