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longwave on Oct 26, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bitcoin is at over 43K unconfirmed transactions

This is the idea behind Lightning Network: https://lightning.network/

AndrewDucker on Oct 26, 2016 | [–]

How's things going with Lightning? It looks like an excellent idea - but is it making any progress towards actual implementation?

Taek on Oct 26, 2016 | | [–]

It's making significant progress. The optimists think it'll be ready by January.

I'm expecting it to be ready closer to June 2017.

csomar on Oct 27, 2016 | [–]

No, it's really not.

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