Litecoin<\/a><\/strong> founder and a long-term advocate of the Lightning Network said, “I’m excited to see the launch of this version of the LN, to think that soon, I’ll be able to do across chain transactions between Bitcoin and Litecoin”.<\/p>\nMore than 1000 nodes are already hosting the LN and Stark hopes that more advanced users who can host their own nodes will add the free software for faster and cheaper transactions. With the LN gradually coming mainstream, it’s a matter of time before blockchain apps become commonplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The California based Lightning Labs has announced the launch of the beta version of its Lightning Network. This is one of the long awaited scaling possibilities of Bitcoin that could make the digital currency’s transactions faster. It brings closer the possibility of recurring payments and use for internet of things (IoT) applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,102,70,84,74],"tags":[4602,4859],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}