Segwit was just activated on Bitcoin around two weeks ago. Among other things, segwit includes a fix for txn malleability needed to facilitate a lightning network implementation on bitcoin. The lightning network alpha…
They discovered this on July 29, the CFO and two other senior executives sold shares 3 days later. They are just now reporting it (when most of the news coverage is focused on the hurricanes). What are the odds they get…
That's unlikely. Bitcoin cash isn't accepted anywhere yet, and unlike Bitcoin it does not have Segwit, and thus no layer2/lightning network support. It's 8MB blocks only up the on-chain scaling from like 3 tx/sec to…
The main use case is small payments. You open a channel locking X amount of funds, and then can send or receive small payments to/from other parties on the network without broadcasting those transactions to the…
I think you misread my response, or maybe I wasn't clear, since I agree with you. I said the lightning network has no security on it's own. It requires an underlying blockchain on which to lock funds. Those underlying…
The lightning network has no security (protection against double spend) on it's own. It relies on the underlying blockchain for that.
Segwit was just activated on Bitcoin around two weeks ago. Among other things, segwit includes a fix for txn malleability needed to facilitate a lightning network implementation on bitcoin. The lightning network alpha…
They discovered this on July 29, the CFO and two other senior executives sold shares 3 days later. They are just now reporting it (when most of the news coverage is focused on the hurricanes). What are the odds they get…
That's unlikely. Bitcoin cash isn't accepted anywhere yet, and unlike Bitcoin it does not have Segwit, and thus no layer2/lightning network support. It's 8MB blocks only up the on-chain scaling from like 3 tx/sec to…
The main use case is small payments. You open a channel locking X amount of funds, and then can send or receive small payments to/from other parties on the network without broadcasting those transactions to the…
I think you misread my response, or maybe I wasn't clear, since I agree with you. I said the lightning network has no security on it's own. It requires an underlying blockchain on which to lock funds. Those underlying…
The lightning network has no security (protection against double spend) on it's own. It relies on the underlying blockchain for that.