Lightning Network- Raising the Bar for Cryptos and Paving the Way to Streaming Money

I feel like I’ve climbed out of the abyss of dark rooms, computer screens, white papers, articles and youtube videos and I’ve finally just begun to grasp this new concept.

Essentially the Lightning Network was developed to remedy the block size issue of Bitcoin, and to allow for micro payments- which are currently unable to be transacted due to the minimum requirement of current transactions, and the fact that the current transaction fees render micro payments useless.

To put it very plainly, Bitcoin transactions take too long

Part of this is due to the amount of transactions taking place, along with the amount of information that is included in these transactions.

As you may remember, I published a video a few days ago talking about segregated witness. That proposal would change how information from the transactions are stored, and the Lightning Network would change how many transactions themselves would be recorded onto the blockchain.

The best analogy that I’ve come across to describe the lightning network is this: Imagine you’re at a bar and you open a tab. The tab enables you to have many different transactions with the bartender, but you only settle the bill at the end of the night.

On the lightning network, only the initial and final transactions are recorded onto the blockchain.

The lightning network would also enable micro payments by allowing for the minimum of 1 satoshi for a transaction, and the fees for that transaction would be incredibly tiny. This could revolutionize yet again the way we think of money. This would enable us to "stream money" much like how we stream videos and music, making money incredibly liquid and eliminating third party middle men.

If I’ve officially peaked your interest and you’d like to learn more,

Check out the links posted down below for a few articles and a great video where the bitcoin master Andreas Antonopoulos goes further into detail about this topic.

Articles on the Lightning Network:

General Look at Lightning Network

Explanation of Dependance of Segwit

The Future of Lightning Network

Andreas Antonopoulos Video

this is taking crypto currency to a new level for sure - great info

I enjoy reading your post, Heiditravels. Thanks for sharing this video!
Upvoted & followed you as well.

Nice informative post!

Proper name for a "sidechain" is an altcoin. When you support lightning you're just supporting an altcoin that happens to be blessed by BSCore. It enables literally nothing that isn't found in a dozen other altcoins and opens up attack avenues that can potentially cost you money.

As for the article itself, Great work @heiditravels you did an awesome job. But you've only discussed one side of the debate, but take a closer look please and perhaps present the other side in all of this.
Upvoting!

Thank you @williambanks for your input, I agree there are two sides to this and I admit that the for the sake of keeping the video brief I chose to only cover one side. I'll do a follow up video/post in the future to balance it out. Thanks again I appreciate it!

You're welcome and like I said it's a great post!

Thanks for the information @heiditravels. All for one and one for all! Namaste :)

Thanks for the explanation and upped you back heidi thanks for the support.

Heidi, I have 100 bitcoins... when will I be rich??

As soon as you sell those, today

Huge game changer :D

Interesting! Thanks for sharing your research on this. A bar analogy always helps :)

Excellent, thanks for the update. Lightning networks sound ingenius. Funny how is sounds obvious once someone thinks of it.