> no intention of solving the problem.
I was starting to grow pretty concerned but clearly segwit and LN have made enough progress that fees have dropped to ~10sat/byte. [1] That is dirt cheap.
i don't think LN has had a chance to make any impact yet and segwit's adoption could be better though it does help.
main reason for the drop imo is the end of the hype cycle: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=bitcoin
Edit: typo
Fair enough, you may be right.
You do realize that there are literally people buying coffee in meatspace today using lightning?
From your link:
> but it's just a test version so it could easily break.
> There’s no mainnet wallets available for regular users, but you can try testnet.
> This is all a work in progress,
Somewhere in a lab on this planet they might have a flying car, that doesn't mean you can use one any time soon.
The literal lightning network developers do not recommend that you use lighting right now because you could lose money.
When the actual devs tell me not to use a buggy, in working, piece of software, I am going to listen to them.
Re:2018 Stellar roadmap
by zerostar07 on Thursday January 25, 2018 @04:07PM
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is it being used to transfer funds from one exchange to the other? because tbh that seems to be the #1 utility of cryptocoins at the moment.
Maybe in 18 months, when the mythical lightning network gets released they will add it back. But not now.