The Lightning Network has always been seen as a solution to help alleviate the scalability problems we have seen in Bitcoin as daily transactions continue to rise. Due to the fixed block size of 1MB, Bitcoin can only handle seven transactions per second. Implementation of lightning would enable off-chain transactions with minimal fees and immediate confirmations. Talked extensively with some development testing done, Lightning Labs announced on January 10 the release of the alpha of the Lightning Network Daemon...
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