[2017-07-21] Bitfury Successfully Tests Lightning Network Across Mainnet

[jamie.redman1]

The firm Bitfury Group published a video which shows a successful demonstration of the Lightning Network on the Bitcoin mainnet.

The well-known company Bitfury which calls itself a blockchain security and infrastructure provider has successfully tested “real bitcoins” using the Lightning Network on the mainnet. The video shows a Bitfury programmer sending bitcoin utilizing a developers version of the Lightning Network. The demo illustrates the opening of Lighting daemon payment channels and the transactions sent across the live Bitcoin network.

“Now we have two open channels, and we can actually perform Lightning Network transactions inside these open channels,” explains the Bitfury developer during the video.

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