Bitcoin Core developer Peter Todd has delivered a frank appraisal of the Lightning Network, suggesting it is technically insufficient in its current form. Lightning’s Growing Pains Writing about his β€œinitial impressions” of Lightning’s testnet implementation on Twitter Monday, Todd questioned aspects including operational resilience and programming language. β€œInitial impressions of Lightning on testnet: c-lightning segfaults a lot, and when it’s not crashing payments fail more often than not. Writing it in C – a notoriously Read More The post Crashes And Failed Payments: Peter Todd Urges Caution Over Lightning Network appeared first on Bitcoinist.com.



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