You'll be happy to hear then that a lot of progress has been made on Lightning since MtGox imploded
I probably should have linked to these from my original comment - rather than removing anything
Specifically with lnd the lightning daemon[0], BOLT's (the equivalent of Bitcoin BIP's) 1 through to 11 have been implemented in the core daemon[1]
There is also the Neutrino light client[2] (screenshot [3])
Far from being vaporware - you're only a few docker commands away from trying it out yourself[4]
[0] https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd
[1] https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc
[2] https://github.com/lightninglabs/neutrino
[3] https://blog.lightning.engineering/assets/images/app-chans-g...
[4] https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/tree/master/docker#c...
Re:Ending Bitcoin Support
by DonHopkins on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @03:04AM
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This sounds just like a 15-year-old ad for Perl 6.
Bitcoin is the multi-level marketing of millennials.
Spot on!
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Personal attacks are not OK on Hacker News, no matter what you're replying to.
Why not just delete the rest of your post and just leave this? This once sentence is what really drives all of the rest of your breathless hype. Naked greed. It's the only thing the entire crypto "space" has.
Lightning network is pure vaporware. It was "coming any day now" when Mt Gox collapsed. It's still coming soon. It will always be coming soon.