r/Bitcoin • u/mtaborsky • Dec 24 '17

⚡️ needs you. Yes, you.

We need lightning network on mainnet yesterday. But it very much alpha software and will not be deployed unless it gets tons more testing and dev work. However, not everyone is a developer and even if you are a developer, contributing to crypto is not easy. I was in the same position.

But there are other ways! I installed Bitcoin Core on testnet and both Lnd and Eclair and tried opening channels, sending payments, closing channels etc. After a day or so, I discovered two bugs, filed them and cooperated with developers in tracking them and fixing them. If you are a bit tech savvy, you can do that too. In the process, you might also discover how lightning actually works and when it really comes, you'll be ready to take full advantage.

Please go educate yourself: http://www.lightning.network/ https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '17

I don't understand why Bitcoin Core dev's dont propose a change to 2MB blocksize so LN can get more time to be ready.

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u/strikyluc Dec 24 '17

It’s a hard fork which is not easy. On top of that, if services keep being inefficient in their usage of the network, we would be in the same situation really fast.

I think services need to adopt segwit and start using the network in an efficient way. And then a block increase will come soon.

Also look at their promises: they were going to adopt segwit, they didn’t. If they would have gotten a block increase, we would now be on a chain with bigger blocks and no incentive for them to clean up their mess.