Lightning Strikes! First Mainnet Beta Release Goes Live With $2.5M Seed Funding

The first official beta implementation of the Lightning Network (LN) went live March 15 as developer Lightning Labs announced it had won $2.5 million in funding. Lightning’s Mainnet Milestone The Lightning Network Daemon (styled β€˜lnd’), which enables easy access to LN for developers, represents the first mainnet beta release for the technology, which is tipped to revolutionize Bitcoin’s use as a currency. β€œThis release is also the first release of lnd that has an option Read More The post Lightning Strikes! First Mainnet Beta Release Goes Live With $2.5M Seed Funding appeared first on Bitcoinist.com.



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