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Re:Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin by solotronics on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @03:07PM (#15864505)
do you know of any current implementations of lightning on the actual blockchain and not testnet (BTC or LTC)? thanks!
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Re:Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin by gtrubetskoy on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @03:23PM (#15864622)
Looks like the first mainnet transaction went through today?

https://medium.com/@lightning_network/lightning-protocol-1-0...

  "As developers of the Lightning Network protocol, we’re 
  excited to announce version 1.0 RC of the Lightning 
  protocol specification along with a successful cross-
  implementation test on Bitcoin mainnet!"
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Re:Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin by bennyg on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @03:23PM (#15864617)
I believe some tests have been done on the mainnet: https://www.coindesk.com/lightning-last-test-shows-bitcoin-s...
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